Mojolicious 8.0, a web framework for Perl, released with new Promises and Roles

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Mojolicious, a next generation web framework for the Perl programming language announced its upgrade to the latest 8.0 version. Mojolicious 8.0 was announced at the Mojoconf in Norway held from 6th to 7th September 2018. This release is codenamed as ‘Supervillain’ and is by far the major release in Mojolicious.

Mojolicious allows users to easily grow single file prototypes into well-structured MVC web applications. It is a powerful web development toolkit, that one can use for all kinds of applications, independently of the web framework.

Many companies such as Alibaba Group, IBM, Logitech, Mozilla, and others rely on Mojolicious to develop new code bases. Even companies like Bugzilla are getting themselves ported to Mojolicious. The Mojolicious community has decided to make a few organizational changes, to support the continuous growth. This includes:

All new development will be consolidated in a single GitHub organization.
Mojolicious’ official IRC channel named say hi! that has almost 200 regulars will be moving to Freenode (#mojo on irc.freenode.net). This will make it easier for people not yet part of the Perl community to get involved.

Some highlights of the Mojolicious 8.0

Promises/A+

Mojolicious 8.0 includes Promises/A+, a new module and pattern for working with event loops. A promise represents the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.

Roles and subprocess

The version 8.0 now includes roles, a new way to extend Mojo classes. Also, the subprocesses can now mix event loops and computationally expensive tasks.

Placeholder types and Mojo::File

With the placeholder types, one can avoid repetitive routes. Whereas the Mojo::File, is the brand new module for dealing with file systems.

Cpanel::JSON::XS and Mojo::PG

With the Cpanel::JSON::XS, users can process JSON at a much faster rate now. The Mojo::PG includes many new SQL::Abstract extensions for Postgres features.

To know more about Mojolicious 8.0 in detail, visit its GitHub page.