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+Even though it's still a young project, an active community is starting to emerge around Dancer. Some modules start to appear on CPAN and github to add functionalities, or to extend existing ones.
+
+Templates
+---------
+
+By default, Dancer comes with support for two templating systems: Template Toolkit and Dancer::Template::Simple, a small templating engine written by sukria. But support for other templating systems are available:
+
+Dancer  
+Template::Tenjin by ido
+
+Dancer  
+Template::Sandbox by Sam Graham
+
+Dancer  
+Template::Tiny by Sawyer
+
+Dancer  
+Template::MicroTemplate by me
+
+Dancer  
+Template::Mason by Yanick Champoux
+
+Dancer  
+Template::Haml by David Moreno
+
+Logger
+------
+
+Out of the box, Dancer only has a simple logging system to write to file, but more logging sytems are available:
+
+  <ul>
+
+  <li>
+
+Dancer::Logger::Syslog by sukria
+
+  </li>
+
+  <li>
+
+Dancer::Logger::LogHandler by me
+
+  </li>
+
+  <li>
+
+Dancer::Logger::PSGI by me
+
+  </li>
+
+  </ul>
+
+The last one is for writing directly your log message via Plack. You can use a middleware like P::M::LogDispatch or P::M::Log4perl to handle logs for your application. Even better, if you use P::M::ConsoleLogger, you can have logs from your Dancer application in your javascript console.
+
+Debug
+-----
+
+To debug your application with Plack, you can use the awesome Plack::Middleware::Debug. I've writen Dancer::Debug (which requires my fork of P::M::Debug), a middleware that add panels, with specific informations for Dancer applications.
+
+To activate this middleware, update your app.psgi to make it look like this:
+
+``` perl
+    my $handler = sub {
+        my $env     = shift;
+        my $request = Dancer::Request->new($env);
+        Dancer->dance($request);
+    };
+    $handler = builder {
+        enable "Debug", panels => [
+            qw/Dancer::Settings Dancer::Logger Environment Memory
+                ModuleVersions Response Session Parameters Dancer::Version /
+        ];
+        $handler;
+    };
+```
+
+Plugins
+-------
+
+Dancer has support for plugins since a few version. There is not a lot of plugins at the moment, but this will soon improve. Plugins support is one of the top priorities for the 1.2 release.
+
+**\*** Dancer::Plugin::REST
+
+This one is really nice. This plugin, used with the serialization stuff, allow you to write easily REST application.
+
+``` perl
+    resource user => get => sub {    # return user where id = params->{id} },
+        create => sub {              # create a new user with params->{user} },
+        delete => sub {          # delete user where id = params->{id} },
+        update => sub {      # update user with params->{user} };
+```
+
+And you got the following routes:
+
+-   GET *user*:id
+-   GET *user*:id.:format
+-   POST /user/create
+-   POST /user/create.:format
+-   DELETE *user*:id
+-   DELETE *user*:id.:format
+-   PUT *user*:id
+-   PUT *user*:id.:format
+
+\*\*\* Dancer::Plugin::Database
+
+This plugin, by bigpresh, add the database keyword to your app.
+
+``` perl
+    use Dancer;
+    use Dancer::Plugin::Database;
+
+    # Calling the database keyword will get you a connected DBI handle:
+    get '/widget/view/:id' => sub {
+        my $sth = database->prepare('select * from widgets where id = ?',
+            {}, params->{id});
+        $sth->execute;
+        template 'display_widget', {widget => $sth->fetchrow_hashref};
+    };
+```
+
+**\*** Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap
+
+With this plugin, by James Ronan, a sitemap of your application is created.
+
+  <blockquote>
+
+Plugin module for the Dancer web framwork that automagically adds sitemap routes to the webapp. Currently adds /sitemap and /sitemap.xml where the former is a basic HTML list and the latter is an XML document of URLS.
+
+  </blockquote>
+
+you can help! :)
+----------------
+
+There is still a lot of stuff to do. Don't hesitate to come on \#dancer@irc.perl.org to discuss ideas or new features that you would like.