What's new on CPAN - May 2020

Jun 20, 2020 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

• Perl Layout Executor with App::plx
• FIDO::Raw provides bindings to the libfido2 library
• Geo::LibProj::cs2cs is a wrapper for the cs2cs command line client, part of the PROJ coordinate transformation library
• Graph::Nauty provides bindings to Nauty (No AUTomorphisms, Yes?)
• Post OCR requests to ocr.space’s API with OCR::OcrSpace

Config & Devops

• Create reciples to declare and resolve dependencies between things with Beam::Make
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography Library with Crypto::ECC
• HealthCheck::Diagnostic::Redis provides a healthcheck for Redis
• HealthCheck::Diagnostic::SMTP performs a connectivity healthcheck to an SMTP mail server
• Show diffs of changes to files managed by Rex with Rex::Hook::File::Diff
• Mask secrets in log files with String::Secret

Data

• File::Groups returns file extensions and media types for different files
• Get Digi-ID implementation with DigiByte::DigiID
• Get elevation data for a given lat/lon using Geo::Elevation::HGT
• JSON::Karabiner can easy JSON code generaation for Karabiner-Elements, the macOS keyboard customizer
• Validate JSON against a schema against the latest draft with JSON::Schema::Draft201909

Development & Version Control

• Documentation and tools for using Platypus with Go: FFI::Platypus::Lang::Go
• Future::IO::Impl::Glib implement Future::IO using Glib
• Mu::Tiny is an even tinier object system
• Get a Try-Catch block (uses PPI) via Nice::Try (great name!)
• Number::Textify turns numbers into human-readable strings (customizable)
• Write composable, reusable tests with roles and Moo using Test2::Roo

Hardware

• Device::Chip::BNO055 provides a chip driver for BNO055
• PINE64::GPIO provides an interface to PineA64 and PineA64+ GPIO pins

Web

• Catalyst::View::MojoTemplate: use Mojolicious templates in Catalyst views
• Store Dancer2 session data in serealized files using Dancer2::Session::Sereal
• Find elements in a HTML::Element DOM using CSS selectors with HTML::Selector::Element
• Place a limit on “concurrent” promises with Mojo::Promise::Limiter
• Add role-based access with context to a Mojo app via Mojolicious::Plugin::ContextAuth
• POE::Component::SmokeBox::Recent::HTTP is an extremely minimal HTTP client