On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:12 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
"Sawyer" == Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> writes:
Sawyer> Last year we've ran the Dancer Advent Calendar 2014[1] containing 24 Sawyer> articles on how to use Dancer2, what it can do, what features it has, Sawyer> etc., which was very successful.
Sawyer> We would like to have another Dancer Advent Calendar this year. This Sawyer> means 24 more articles.
Sawyer> We need *you*.
Sawyer> I'm collecting articles on topics ranging from: Sawyer> * Something you do in Dancer (a trick you have, a suggestion on how to use it). Sawyer> * Projects you made that use Dancer. Sawyer> * Plugins you like, plugins you wrote. Sawyer> * Topics I haven't thought of!
Topics suggestions:
- I'd love to see a simple example of searching with multiple fields and pagination of the results. My big use case is searching databases in a library to presenting results. Migrating from an old PHP app would be awesome. Which would involve a mix of POST/GET calls... how do people recommend this be handled? Esp when you want to give people the ability to modify their searches, etc.
I suspect thoughts on Javascript integration would be needed here.
Good idea. Added!
- A Good example of how to put in authentication and some of the issues surrounding it.
There is one planned for Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible by Andy.
- I'd also like to second Warren's comment asking for how to structure bigger apps and howto scale them up better.
Yup! I want to add it but first I want to know if this will be a single article, a series, etc.
Documentation
- more details examples of getting Dancer2 up and working with Apache, NGinx, etc. Or some way to automatically generate templates to be used for common situations. The docs are so so... something more concrete would be ideal.
Automatically generating templates for it is a very interesting idea. Raise a ticket, maybe? As for articles, these are good article ideas. Added! Thank you for all the comments!