This has nothing (nothing!) to do with Perl at all.

If you eliminate the $.get call and replace it by something else that calls your callback, you will see exactly the same.

Your aux_state function never returns a value, because it doesn't have a return statement:

function aux_state(aux){
        $.get(host +'/get_aux/' + aux, function(state){
            alert(state); // LINE 2
            return state;
        });
    }

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The return statement you see is for the callback function that gets invoked asynchronously by jQuery. The aux_state function returns immediately and returns no value.

To capture the return value of your $.get() call asynchronously in Javascript, you will have to pass in another callback to aux_state which then gets invoked once the value is available. This is what people name Callback Hell.

In reply to Re: jQuery issue with Dancer2 by Corion
in thread jQuery issue with Dancer2 by stevieb

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