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=head1 NAME

RapidApp - Turnkey ajaxy webapps

=head1 SYNOPSIS

See L<www.rapidapp.info|http://www.rapidapp.info> and LRapidApp::Manual for more information.

Create new app named "MyApp" using all the helpers:

rapidapp.pl --helpers RapidDbic,Templates,TabGui,AuthCore,NavCore MyApp
-- --dsn dbi:mysql:database=somedb,root,''

Start the test server (default login admin/pass):

MyApp/script/myapp_server.pl

OR, start up an instant database CRUD app/utility at http://localhost:3500/

rdbic.pl dbi:mysql:database=somedb,root,''

=head1 DESCRIPTION

RapidApp is an extension to L<Catalyst> - the Perl MVC framework. It provides a feature-rich extended development stack, as well as easy access to common out-of-the-box application paradigms, such as powerful CRUD-based front-ends for LDBIx::Class models, user access and authorization, RESTful URL navigation schemes, pure Ajax interfaces with no browser page loads, templating engine with front-side CMS features, declarative configuration layers, and more...

RapidApp is useful not only for new application development, but also for adding admin interfaces and snap-in components to existing applications, as well as for rapid prototyping.

Although RapidApp is based on Catalyst, fully encapsulated L<Plack> interfaces are also provided, such as LPlack::App::RapidApp::rDbic and LRapi::Fs, which enables RapidApp to be integrated into any application/framework which utilizes PSGI/Plack.

RapidApp started as an internal project in 2009 and has been under continuous development ever since. It has been used very successfully for multiple medium to large-scale client applications (backends with hundreds of tables and tens of millions of rows) as well as many quick and easy apps and interfaces for smaller jobs.

We started open-sourcing RapidApp in 2013, and this work is ongoing...

RapidApp is built on top of a number of powerful open-source tools and technologies including:

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Perl

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L<Catalyst>

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LDBIx::Class

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L<ExtJS|http://www.sencha.com>

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LTemplate::Toolkit

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Documentation is still a work-in-progress. Much of it has been done, but much of it still remains to be done: LRapidApp::Manual.

Also, be sure to check out the RapidApp website for more information, including several comprehensive video demos and tutorials:

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L<www.rapidapp.info|http://www.rapidapp.info>

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=head1 SUPPORT

IRC:

Join #rapidapp on irc.perl.org.

=head1 AUTHOR

Henry Van Styn [email protected]

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by IntelliTree Solutions llc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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