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I've been doing a lot of work with Mojolicious lately and I've been liking it. It provides Mojo::IOLoop::Subprocess to fork off a subprocess so that one doesn't block the server.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Mojolicious::Lite -signatures;
use Mojo::IOLoop;

get '/' => sub ($c) {
    $c->render(template => 'index');
} => 'index';

post '/doit' => sub ($c) {
    $c->render_later;
    Mojo::IOLoop->subprocess->run_p(sub {
        # this code is actually running in a subprocess!
        sleep 10;
        return "I did the thing!";
    })->then(sub (@results) {
        $c->render(text => "@results");
    })->catch(sub ($err) {
        $c->reply->exception($err);
    });
} => 'doit';

app->start;

__DATA__

@@ index.html.ep
% layout 'main', title => 'Hello, World!';
<div>
%= form_for doit => ( method=>'post' ) => begin
%= submit_button 'Do the thing'
%= end
</div>

@@ layouts/main.html.ep
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><title><%= title %></title></head>
<body>
%= content
</body>
</html>
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You could combine this with e.g. aychnronous AJAX form submission like I showed here, or one could probably even send progress messages (a feature provided by Mojo::IOLoop::Subprocess) to the browser using something like Javascript's EventSource API, which I included an example of here.

Update 2022-04-07: I've now posted an example of just that here.

In reply to Re: Recommend an asynchronous HTTP server CPAN modules? (updated) by haukex
in thread Recommend an asynchronous HTTP server CPAN modules? by sectokia

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