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<p>You can also create a <a href="http://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojolicious/Command/generate/plugin">plugin project</a> or <a href="http://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojolicious/Command/generate/makefile">generate a Makefile</a>.</p>

<p>There is some more to say on the subject of file generation, but since this is an overview post, I&#39;ll leave it at that for now.</p>

<h3>The version Command</h3>

<p>The <a href="http://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojolicious/Command/version"><code>version</code></a> command is a simple utility to check your Mojolicious installation.</p>

<p>It outputs your current version of Perl and Mojolicious along with any installed optional libraries.
For example, you&#39;ll want to install <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/IO::Socket::SSL">IO::Socket::SSL</a> if you want to fetch or serve sites over HTTPS.
It then checks to see if there is an updated version of Mojolicious available.</p>

<h3>The routes Command</h3>

<p>Once you started writing your application, you might want to introspect it a little bit, especially for debugging purposes.
The most straightforward command of that nature is <a href="http://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojolicious/Command/routes"><code>routes</code></a>.
Simply run it on your app to see what routes you have defined.</p>

<p>For example, we can run it on Santa&#39;s application from <a href="/blog/2017/12/03/day-3-using-named-routes">day 3</a>.</p>

<pre><code>$ perl santa.pl routes