<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hi,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I'm hoping for the community's input on whether Dancer is an appropriate framework for our project.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">We're building a website that wraps functionality exposed by an existing Perl EPP library. Perl has great EPP support and we don't want to re-implement that library in another language. In the medium term, the website will need to offer a fairly rich user experience that calls out to other databases and services beyond this one library.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">We're exploring two options:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"> 1. use Dancer to build the entire website</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"> 2. use Dancer to power a thin REST API around the library and use another framework (eg. in Python) to build the rich website experience.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Our requirements include:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"> * move quickly, use the right tool for the job (ie. favour re-using components over building everything from scratch)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"> * modern website tooling, such as SASS for CSS, good HTML form support, model validation</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"> * well documented and mature software</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"> * relatively easy for other devs to work on the project later</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I'm deliberately trying to avoid a language flame war. Rather, I'm evaluating based on the size and maturity of the User Experience/UI section of the Perl community. Dancer seems well placed for API servers, but the web dev communities seem to be focused around Ruby, Python, Node etc. which is making me lean toward option (2) above. Is that a reasonable evaluation?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">What do you all think? </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Thanks,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Greg</div><div class="" id="bloop_sign_1377245091830200064"></div></body></html>