Thunderhorse is a modern web framework written in Perl. It supports the PAGI protocol natively and is designed for building asynchronous, real-time web applications.
The framework is light, extensible, and reusable. Its components are built on Gears and can integrate with PAGI applications and middleware.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Native support for the PAGI protocol.
- Async-ready architecture for handling concurrent requests.
- Powerful, cache-friendly routing system.
- Supports required, optional, wildcard, and slurpy route placeholders.
- Route bridges provide preprocessing, authentication, and authorisation logic.
- Controller-based application structure.
- Built-in support for logging, middleware, and templates.
- Configuration loading and merging.
- Server-Sent Events and WebSocket support.
- Command-line utility for generating and inspecting projects.
- Extensible hooks and overridable system methods.
- Uses modern Perl 5.40 syntax.
Website: github.com/Thunderhorse-Framework/Thunderhorse
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Developer: Bartosz Jarzyna
License: Perl 5 License
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