What's new on CPAN - January 2017

Feb 13, 2017 by David Farrell

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::Hako can isolate apps from $HOME
• App::OnePif can read the 1Password interchange format
• Get a modular Telegram Bot using App::TeleGramma
• Yet another JSON grep: App::yajg
• Net::Google::Spreadsheets::V4 provides a perly interface for Google Spreadsheets v4 API
• AI::CleverbotIO is a Perl wrapper for the cleverbot.io API
• OpenSourceOrg::API provides Perl bindings to the OSI License API
• Fetch stream-able URLs from radio station websites on Tunein.com with Tunein::Streams

Config & Devops

• Version::Dotted supplements Version with new features for dotted version numbers

Data

• Bit::Manip provides functions for bit manipulation, instead of using bitwise operators
• DBIx::Class::Helper::ResultSet::CrossTab simulates MS crosstab/pivot table behavior on a resultset
• Transform data from one format to another before pushing it to a Datahub instance using Datahub::Factory
• Generate example JSON structures from JSON Schema definitions using JSON::Schema::ToJSON
• Locale::Meta is a localization tool based on Locale::Wolowitz.
• Get a Redux-like store with Pollux

Development & Version Control

• Track execution context in async programs with Async::ContextSwitcher
• Git::ObjectStore is an abstraction layer for Git::Raw and libgit2
• A Meta Object Protocol for Perl 5 - MOP
• MooX::Commander - build command line apps with subcommands and option parsing using Moo
• MoobX is a reactive programming clone of JavaScript’s MobX
• Ryu provides stream and data flow handling for async code
• Syntax::Feature::Qn is a Perl syntax extension for line-based quoting
• Get a minimal mocking framework for Perl using Test::Mockify

Hardware

A bunch of new Raspberry Pi modules thanks to Steve Bertrand:

• RPi::ADC::ADS is an interface to ADS 1xxx series analog to digital converters (ADC)
• RPi::DigiPot::MCP4XXXX is interface to the MCP4xxxx series digital potentiometers
• RPi::HCSR04 is an interface to the HC-SR04 ultrasonic distance measurement sensor
• RPi::SPI can communicate with devices over the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus

Other

A couple of notable gaming-related releases:

• Games::Chipmunk provides a Perl interface for the Chipmunk 2D v7 physics library
• Graphics::Raylib is a Perl wrapper for Raylib videogame library

Science & Mathematics

• Data::Math does arithmetic operations on complex data structures
• Sort::Naturally::XS provides a human-friendly (“natural”) sort order

Web

• Catalyst::Plugin::Session::PerUser::AutoLogout - log a user out of other sessions (e.g. on password change).
• Data::MuForm a new data validator and form processor
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Web::Auth::Site::Fitbit adds Fitbit Web API auth support to Mojo

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.