This is a good opportunity to learn something new.

That seems like a perfect reason to try out a framework :)

It seems sensible to use whatever is installed on the shared hosting I use...except there isn't one! I have gone through this list and the only one listed there that is installed is Moose which is not what I am wanting.

Because several monks have mentioned it, and 1nickt talked about Yancy, I am thinking that Mojolicious would be a sensible choice. But the documentation says "...no requirements besides Perl 5.26.0 (versions as old as 5.16.0 can be used too, but may require additional CPAN modules to be installed)"

The shared hosting has v5.16 installed and I cannot directly install modules from CPAN because the compilers are turned off to shared hosting users. I have to contact support and then it's a lottery whether I get someone who installs the module or who says they are unable to. If there is going to need to be many modules installed before I can run Mojolicious under v5.16 then it could be a long time before I even get to write a line of code :(

The plan was to have the first version up and running by the weekend - four days away...
I knew it was going to be a steep learning curve but didn't expect the slope to be this steep, this soon!

In reply to Re^2: To Framework or not to Framework by Bod
in thread To Framework or not to Framework by Bod

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