So I think the advent reply was pretty good, I wish that was in the docs as a way to do it. I started with Dancer 1 a few years ago and the tutorials and cookbook were a good start but I ran into your problem as well. I had to find a way to split up my code so my main app.pm was not just loaded with stuff. I took more of a MVC approach and made in my libs lib/models and lib/controllers folders and in my controllers put my routes for different things so I would have authentication.pm, dashboard.pm, etc.. on my models stuff I will have more of a lib perl modules scenario where my libraries and their functions exist. Such as Users.pm, Logging.pm etc... In my main app.pm I will call use controllers::dashboard; use controllers::authentication; my controllers will then use the model libs with use model::libname and then pull any functions they need out to perform the controlling of the view and then like a route load the view at the end. It works good enough for me as its laid out nice. I would consider the advent way by loading the functions directly to the route. Hopefully this gives you another idea of how to lay it out. -Scott