mojolicious/mojo

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2747 stars · 590 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Mojolicious is a real-time web framework for Perl that supports MVC web applications, WebSockets, and non-blocking I/O with a built-in web server. It also includes a standalone web development toolkit with full-stack HTTP/WebSocket client and server implementations, JSON/HTML parsers, and a testing framework.

Use cases

• build a RESTful API in Perl
• create a real-time web app with WebSockets
• grow a single-file prototype into a full MVC application
• scrape and parse HTML/XML with CSS selectors
• write an async HTTP client with non-blocking I/O
• deploy a cloud-native web service in containers
• build a long-polling or SSE application

When to choose

• you're developing in Perl and want a batteries-included web framework with no non-core dependencies
• you need real-time features like WebSockets, SSE, or long-running non-blocking requests
• you want a built-in production web server (Hypnotoad) with hot deployment and pre-forking
• you need a portable pure-Perl HTTP/WebSocket client-server toolkit usable outside the framework

When to avoid

• your team works primarily in another language ecosystem (a JavaScript port exists at mojojs.org)
• you need a framework with a large third-party middleware/plugin ecosystem like Django, Rails, or Express
• you require async runtimes beyond Perl's event loop model or deep integration with PSGI-only tooling

Facets

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web-framework http-server http-client websocket routing templating middleware testing parser web-development backend apis cross-platform windows perl mvc event-loop non-blocking-io real-time-web cloud-native user-agent cpan real-time linux macos

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