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🕸️🐪 Welcome to WebPerl!

WebPerl uses the power of WebAssembly and Emscripten to let you run Perl 5 in the browser!

WebPerl does not translate your Perl code to JavaScript, instead, it is a port of the perl binary to WebAssembly, so that you have the full power of Perl at your disposal!

Notice: WebPerl is very much in beta. Some things may not work yet, and parts of the API may still change. Your feedback is always appreciated!

<script src="webperl.js"></script>
<script type="text/perl">

print "Hello, Perl World!\n";  # goes to JavaScript console by default

js('document')->getElementById('my_button')
	->addEventListener('click', sub {
		js('window')->alert("You clicked the button!");
	} );
</script>

For web applications written with WebPerl, see:

Quick Start

Prerequisites: perl (a recent version is recommended, e.g. v5.26 and up), plackup from Plack, and Cpanel::JSON::XS.

In a shell:

$ wget https://github.com/haukex/webperl/releases/download/v0.07-beta/webperl_prebuilt_v0.07-beta.zip
$ unzip webperl_prebuilt_v0.07-beta.zip
$ cd webperl_prebuilt_v0.07-beta
$ plackup webperl.psgi
HTTP::Server::PSGI: Accepting connections at http://0:5000/

Then point your browser at http://localhost:5000/webperl_demo.html and have a look at its source. The ZIP archive also contains several other examples, which you can access at http://localhost:5000/.

You may also host the contents of the above ZIP archive on a webserver of your choice, or some browsers will support opening the files locally; both are described in Serving WebPerl. (Note: In webperl_demo.html, you’ll likely see “AJAX Failed!”, which is to be expected since your webserver won’t know how to handle the example AJAX request.)

Have fun! ️🐪

Please see the “Legal” page for details.

You can find the source for this page at https://github.com/haukex/webperl/blob/gh-pages/index.md