Dancer2 developers, Are someone picking up on HTMX (http://htmx.org) like Django is doing? HTMX finally allows interactivity by the server rather than client Javascript. A great relief for us who think the best use of Javascript is minimal. I have made a rather large perl based single user DNA analysis package that is deployed in industry. Its results outputs are sets of text tables and corresponding inter-linked HTML files that the user can navigate. Lately the need for more interactivity and instrument control has come about, and then I thought of Dancer + HTMX. A simple route handler that calls my functions that produce smaller or larger pieces of HTML should be enough. No need for Plack, an "app" file layout, login, security, just a route handler where I can set the port number. Your tutorial, below this appealing script: #!/usr/bin/env perl use Dancer2; get '/' => sub { return 'Hello World!'; }; start; state "We want to emphasize that writing a script file like this with a start command is not how you would typically begin writing a Dancer2 app." But why is that? is there a speed problem? I will have my own cron-loop and could just make sure this runs in background, like I do with Apache web server. But I must be able to set the port at install time, since 3000 may be busy for other things. Also, the route handler will always be on localhost, i think. Finally, I see long-standing bugs on github and nearly no traffic on the mailing list. This makes me wonder if I dare base my package on it. Comments? Niels L Niels Larsen, PhD, CEO Danish Genome Institute Skt. Lucas Kirkeplads 8 8000 Aarhus C Denmark E-mail: niels@genomics.dk Skype: niels_larsen_denmark Mobile: +45-3091-5426 (GMT+1)