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Mojolicious is a fresh take on Perl web development, based on years of
experience developing the Catalyst framework, and utilizing the latest
web standards and technologies. You can get started with your project
quickly, with a framework that grows with your needs.
The Mojo stack provides a consistent set of components that can be used in
any project. The guides cover most aspects of using the framework and the
components have comprehensive reference documentation. Mojolicious is a
real-time web framework, which allows a new class of web applications
using WebSockets and having long-running requests without blocking.
Join us now, and be a part of a friendly and knowledgeable community of
developers!
## Features
* An amazing **real-time web framework**, allowing you to easily grow single
file prototypes into well-structured MVC web applications.
* Powerful out of the box with RESTful routes, plugins, commands, Perl-ish
templates, content negotiation, session management, form validation,
testing framework, static file server, CGI/[PSGI](http://plackperl.org)
detection, first class Unicode support and much more for you to
discover.
* A powerful **web development toolkit**, that you can use for all kinds of
applications, independently of the web framework.
* Full stack HTTP and WebSocket client/server implementation with IPv6, TLS,
SNI, IDNA, HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy, UNIX domain socket, Comet (long polling),
Promises/A+, async/await, keep-alive, connection pooling, timeout, cookie,
multipart, and gzip compression support.
* Built-in non-blocking I/O web server, supporting multiple event loops as
well as optional pre-forking and hot deployment, perfect for building
highly scalable web services.
* JSON and HTML/XML parser with CSS selector support.
* Very clean, portable and object-oriented pure-Perl API with no hidden
magic and no requirements besides Perl 5.26.0 (versions as old as 5.10.1
can be used too, but may require additional CPAN modules to be installed)
* Fresh code based upon years of experience developing
[Catalyst](http://www.catalystframework.org), free and open source.
* Hundreds of 3rd party
[extensions](https://metacpan.org/requires/distribution/Mojolicious) and
high quality spin-off projects like the
[Minion](https://metacpan.org/pod/Minion) job queue.
## Installation
All you need is a one-liner, it takes less than a minute.
$ curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - -M https://cpan.metacpan.org -n Mojolicious
We recommend the use of a [Perlbrew](http://perlbrew.pl) environment.
## Getting Started
These three lines are a whole web application.
```perl
use Mojolicious::Lite;
get '/' => {text => 'I ♥ Mojolicious!'};
app->start;
```
To run this example with the built-in development web server just put the
code into a file and start it with `morbo`.
$ morbo hello.pl
Server available at http://127.0.0.1:3000
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/
I ♥ Mojolicious!
## Duct tape for the HTML5 web
Use all the latest Perl and HTML features in beautiful single file
prototypes like this one, and
[grow](https://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Growing#Differences)
them easily into well-structured **Model-View-Controller** web applications.
```perl
use Mojolicious::Lite -signatures;
# Render template "index.html.ep" from the DATA section
get '/' => sub ($c) {
$c->render(template => 'index');
};
# WebSocket service used by the template to extract the title from a website
websocket '/title' => sub ($c) {
$c->on(message => sub ($c, $msg) {
my $title = $c->ua->get($msg)->result->dom->at('title')->text;
$c->send($title);
});
};
app->start;
__DATA__
@@ index.html.ep
% my $url = url_for 'title';
```
## Want to know more?
Take a look at our excellent [documentation](https://mojolicious.org/perldoc)!