This is an example app for demonstating how stew works. This app is a simple Plack application.

Clone the stew repository

git clone https://github.com/vti/stew-example-repo

This repository has Debian 9 binary packages. So if you are on Debian 9 you can install much faster, but don't worry, you can compile for any platform too.

See this repo's README too.

Deployment workflow

1. Copy distribution to server

If on Debian 9 just grab stew-example-app-0125c086-linux-debian-9-x86_64.tar.gz.

If not take a look at Developer workflow section on how to build package for your distribution.

2. Unpack distribution

   tar xzf

3. Start application

   bin/env start

No need to install anything!

Developer workflow

1. Bootstrap dependencies

This command will compile packages into local build/ directory. You can cache the build/.cache/dist directory for the next time.

bin/bootstrap --repo /path/to/stew-example-repo --from-source

Or if you happen to run Debian 9, you can just bootstrap from binaries, i have precompiled them for you:

bin/bootstrap --repo /path/to/stew-example-repo --os linux-debian-9

After bootstrap you can do some cleanup like removing man pages and other documentation.

2. Pack distribution

This packed distribution will contain application, perl, some system libraries and CPAN modules.

bin/pack

# stew-example-app-0125c086-linux-debian-9-x86_64.tar.gz