Hello, I've found out that CGI.pm is no more in the core distribution of Perl. I've also read that there are many better ways to implement a web application, like use Plack, or use CGI::Application, CGI::Snapp, Dancer, Mojolicious... It is also suggested to use templating systems (ok fine, I've used them with CGI.pm).

However, with modern responsive websites I think that CGI.pm is still a great module, so simple to use it that I don't see a reason to move away or use anything else.

You just write an API for the client javascript making an AJAX request and you're all done with something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI;
use JSON;
my $query = new CGI;
my $response = whatever(Query=>$query);
my $json = JSON->new->utf8(1)->pretty(1)->allow_nonref->encode($respon
+se);
print $query->header('application/json').$json;

sub whatever {

    # Here you can do REALLY anything, and send back an hash reference
}

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Do I make it too easy? This is has a flat learning curve too.

In reply to Is CGI.pm dead? by Anonymous Monk

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