# mojolicious/mojo

:sparkles: Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework

Repository: https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mojo
Homepage: https://mojolicious.org
Language: Perl
License: Artistic-2.0
License Family: other
Topics: perl, json, event-loop, user-agent, web-server, websocket, http, html, mojolicious, mvc, web-framework, cloud-native
Last push: 2026-08-09T23:59:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6525, "days_push": 24, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2747, forks 590 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:17.455790+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, http-server, http-client, websocket, routing, templating, middleware, testing, parser
- domain: web-development, backend, apis
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: perl, mvc, event-loop, non-blocking-io, real-time-web, cloud-native, user-agent, cpan, real-time, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- mojolicious/mojo (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.455790+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:19:01.253122+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.455790+00:00, sha ba995bc0c439)
  - homepage: https://mojolicious.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:57:04.217300+00:00, sha 263faa84cd4f)
  - site_page: https://docs.mojolicious.org/Mojolicious/Guides/FAQ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:57:04.219773+00:00, sha d4c499e57a92)
  - site_page: https://docs.mojolicious.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:57:04.221797+00:00, sha 9d0897be1809)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.