in reply to Best way to start a perl project

I like template toolkit, but I am often prevented from using it and with good reason: "good" web development (tm) depends on being able to separate style from content and TT is an insufficient framework for that. At some point you'll be forced to think in terms of custom framework - it happens to everybody eventually.

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Re^2: Best way to start a perl project
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 02, 2017 at 15:22 UTC

    I disagree about rolling a custom framework; unless a company is in the business of making frameworks. There are many template frameworks in Perl at all levels of control and most have communities and available devs and test suites and documentation and free bug fixes. 15 years ago maybe, maybe, it would have been worth rolling a new solution for a specific problem. Today there is no developer who could produce a better engine economically—including tests and documentation and answering questions for the other devs/designers—than at least one of the options on the CPAN.

    Rolling your own template engine is long considered a newbie rite of passage undertaken specifically because one doesn't know any better.

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      When I say custom framework I do not mean rolling your own components of that framework. Modern frameworks are best called meta-frameworks because customisation is unavoidable and in fact NOT customising the meta-framework to meet your needs is the semi-newbie mistake because it means code design has been severely limited at best.

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