What's new on CPAN - March 2019

Apr 11, 2019 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::PhotoDB manages photography data
Get command line utils for identifying module dependencies, function names and more with App::perlutils
App::rsync::retry wraps Rsync to retry on transfer errors
Print horizontal rules of different styles ot the terminal with App::term::hr
Run Perl scripts in AWS Lambda with AWS::Lambda!
DNS::Unbound provides an interface to NLNetLabs’s recursive DNS resolver
Download a deck from speakerdeck.com with WWW::Speakerdeck::Download
Tk::JThumbnail is a file browser implemented in Tk
Pixela is an activity tracking service, use it from Perl with WebService::Pixela
Slack::WebHook can post to a Slack webhook with preset layouts and colors
WebService::ValidSign provides a REST API client for ValidSign, the digital signature app

App::ucpan updates CPAN modules with easy-to-read information
Dotenv supports per-environment configurations, which is the only way to do them in 12 factor apps

Chart::GGPlot is an ambitious port of ggplot2 to Perl
Data::Faker::Country provides country and ISO country code data generation
Graph::Traverse adds a traverse() method for the Graph module
Syndicate in JSON using JSON::Feed
Protocol::Database::PostgreSQL is a PostgreSQL wire protocol implementation for Database::Async
Quickly test if two arrays are identical using Arrays::Same (implemented in XS)

Giblog is an HTML blog builder backed by Git
HTTP::Simple provides a simple procedural interface to HTTP::Tiny
Remove the Server header from the Mojolicious response using Mojolicious::Plugin::NoServerHeader
Mojolicious::Plugin::TextExceptions renders exceptions as text for command line user agents
Use Wordpress as a headless CMS with Mojolicious::Plugin::Wordpress
Catch unreachable code after a Catalyst detach using Perl::Critic::Policy::Catalyst::ProhibitUnreachableCode