There are two main practices in Web development when it comes to website building. One of them is using a CMS that employs the help of a visual interface to let the developer build the site, while the second, more obscure, is to use a technology called "static site generator (compiler)" to put sites together from configuration files, templates, and local text files.
Dapper is one of the few active static site generators for the Perl community, a command-line utility that takes content stored in Markdown files, arranges it via a preset template, and generates a static HTML page which webmasters can serve to their users.
Markdown syntax is used to format the way the text appears on the site, while YAML is used to store various site details and meta data.
Dapper doesn't work in real-time, so every time a webmaster makes a change to the content, he'll need to re-build and update his site via simple CLI commands.
Using this approach, Dapper-generated sites are quite fast being easier to load since pages are a lot smaller and don't require any server-side logic or operations.
Sites are also portable, being easier to move from server to server, since there are no complex database migrations involved, operations which usually take up lots of time and generate most of the errors.
And to make things even better, Dappe also comes with a built-in Web server, so you won't have to mess around with various server technologies. Just install Dapper, run a few CLI commands and you're ready to go.
What is new in this release:
- Adopted the TT3 mini-language as provided by Template::Alloy.
- Added urlpattern and extension variables to site and page definitions.
- Added consistent handling of urlpattern, and output file extensions.
Requirements:
- Perl 5.8 or higher
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