For "simple", I've used Mojolicious (http://mojolicious.org/). The Mojo-casts (http://mojocasts.com/e1) helped me get going. It's bundled with Strawberry Perl (5.22.1) but an older version, so I just did a "cpan Mojolicious" for a smooth upgrade.

I've used SQLite, MySQL and Microsoft Access as the backend database - they all work fine with Mojolicious - as long as you have the appropriate DBD module (driver).

Catalyst is probably overkill for a single HTML form, but either Mojolicious or Dancer are good, well-maintained frameworks that make creating basic web applications very easy.

I would say that using one of these would be quicker than trying to code directly on top of PSGI/Plack, as they are both well documented - rolling your own would result in a smaller codebase, but would probably take a lot longer to get up and running.

But, IMO (nah, not "humble") neither of the above fine replies should be read as deprecating PSGI/Plack if you're comfortable with what you've found already... and (again, IMO) if you do go the P/P route, you'll probably feel that you have finer control.

Originally I was probably trying to avoid frameworks because of my (very limited) experience with Ruby on Rails, but having had a quick look at Dancer and Mojolicious, they don't appear to be quite so much designed to confuse and bewilder me, so I think I'll start there. Thanks for the input.

I've started on the Web casts. It looks impressive.

Plack Dancer Dancer2 et alia: Understanding benefits of Plack PSGI, Plack et.al. and also Dancer2 sessions under Plack and http://blog.kablamo.org/2014/04/08/read-plack-1/ also Beginner's guide to Dancer Dancer calendar 2010 2011 2012 2013 few things on Dancer2 SawyerX speacks about Dancer2 and CGI must die! larsen writes about plack Dancer2 sessions under Plack About sessions and modules to do it How to make ajax requests in Dancer2 Write a Filehandle w/Dancer2 Dancer2 - How to loop over a ref to a HoH Dancer & Plackup - Redirect not refreshing page data Bizarre Dancer encoding behavior Need tipps for identifying utf-8 problems with Dancer and MySQL Beginner's guide for Perl Dancer contains internet introduction too Current Dancer route Your Mother about recicling an existing CGI in plack free Dancer Hosting (not tested) and psgi links and plack ones by Miyagawa and tobyink on deploying strategies of psgi app and Plack and multiple domains which point to this one and mount_multiple_apps_with_plack http://www.josetteorama.com/all-about-dancer-interview-of-sawyerx/ part one two and 3 and last also about session signed cookies with Plack form from CGI to Dancer and Template Toolkit some links about basic internet Jeffa Dancer example Plack debugger infos Twiggy is a lightweight and fast HTTP server by Miyagawa

Plack modperl FASTCGI etc also link to plack for beginners

Multiple plack apps and deployment Mojolicious::Lite slides

Web Apps - small examples and guidance

Catalyst client server interaction - Template and javascript Understanding Catalyst - YourMother words separating html and logic - old but interesting

good Perl web panorama in late 2015: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1149446 PSGI mod_perl where my process runs?

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I found an excellent series of posts by Joel Berger on using Mojolicious:

• http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2012/10/a-simple-mojoliciousdbi-example.html
• http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2012/10/a-websocket-mojoliciousdbi-example.html
• http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/09/mojolicious-do-it-for-the-candy.html

And this Ubuntu Manpage is also really useful:

• http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man3/Mojolicious::Guides::Cookbook.3pm.html