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How Cloudflare Uses Node.js

62 engineering articles about Node.js from Cloudflare's engineering team

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The article discusses the development of vinext, a new front-end framework that serves as a drop-in replacement for Next. js, built using Vite and designed for deployment on Cloudflare Workers.
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Cloudflare introduces Moltworker, an open-source middleware that enables running the Moltbot self-hosted AI agent on Cloudflare's Developer Platform instead of dedicated hardware like Mac minis.
Celso Martinho
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The 2025 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review highlights significant trends in internet traffic, the rise of AI, post-quantum encryption, and the increase in DDoS attacks.
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The article discusses enhancements made to the testing experience for Cloudflare Workflows, a durable execution engine for multi-step applications.
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The article discusses the CPU performance benchmarks of Cloudflare Workers compared to Vercel, revealing initial discrepancies and subsequent improvements made to enhance performance.
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The article reflects on Cloudflare's 15-year journey and the initiatives launched during Birthday Week 2025, emphasizing their commitment to building a better Internet.
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Cap'n Web is a new RPC system designed for browsers and web servers, implemented in pure TypeScript.
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The article discusses the integration of frontend, backend, and database functionalities within a single Cloudflare Worker, highlighting recent improvements that enable developers to build full-sta...
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The article announces the 1. 0 release of the Cloudflare Vite plugin, which integrates the Workers runtime with Vite, enhancing the development experience for web applications.
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The article discusses the newly announced support for MySQL in Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive, enabling developers to build applications that connect directly to MySQL databases regardless of th...
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The article discusses a troubleshooting experience with running tests in a React application using Yarn and Jest, highlighting a peculiar issue where the tests fail due to an unexpected interaction...
Yew Leong
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The article summarizes Cloudflare's 2024 Birthday Week, highlighting major announcements and innovations aimed at enhancing customer experience and contributing to the broader Internet community.
Kelly May Johnston
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Cloudflare has developed a new container platform that leverages GPUs for running various applications across its global network.
Brendan Irvine-Broque
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Builder Day 2024 introduced 18 significant updates to the Cloudflare Workers platform, emphasizing improvements based on developer feedback. Key features include persistent logging, enhanced Node.
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This article discusses the enhancements made to Cloudflare's integration with popular full-stack frameworks, enabling faster local development workflows.
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The article discusses the integration of Python into Cloudflare Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly, enabling developers to write serverless applications in Python.
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The article discusses the new integration of Vitest with Cloudflare Workers, enabling developers to write unit and integration tests that run directly in the workerd runtime.
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The article discusses enhanced debugging capabilities for Cloudflare Workers, focusing on the introduction of breakpoint debugging.
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The article discusses how Prisma successfully reduced its engine distribution costs by 98% by migrating from AWS S3 and CloudFront to Cloudflare R2.
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Cloudflare celebrated its 13th birthday with a series of announcements aimed at enhancing its services for customers and the broader internet community.
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The article introduces a new Socket API designed for interoperability across JavaScript runtimes, specifically highlighting the connect() function.
Dominik Picheta
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The article discusses the introduction of WebGPU support in Cloudflare Workers, highlighting its significance for developers in creating high-performance applications.
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The article introduces Workers AI, a serverless AI inference platform powered by Cloudflare's global network of GPUs.
Phil Wittig
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Developer Week 2023 showcased Cloudflare's advancements in developer tools and AI capabilities, featuring 34 posts that highlight new products, features, and tutorials.
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Cloudflare Workers now support additional Node. js APIs, enhancing compatibility with npm packages.
James M Snell
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The article discusses Cloudflare's evolution into a comprehensive platform for deploying and running web applications, highlighting new features like the integration of Cloudflare Workers and Pages...
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The article discusses the modernization of the build system for Cloudflare Pages, introducing a new beta version that supports updated tools and languages, including Node. js, Python, and Ruby.
Greg Brimble
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The article discusses the enhancements made to the local development experience for Cloudflare Workers through the integration of Miniflare v3 into Wrangler v3.
Brendan Coll
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The article introduces the new connect() API for creating outbound TCP sockets in Cloudflare Workers, enabling direct connections to TCP-based services such as databases.
Brendan Irvine-Broque
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Cloudflare Workers is rolling out compatibility with Node. js core APIs, enhancing support for JavaScript runtimes.
James M Snell
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The article introduces Wildebeest, an open-source server compatible with ActivityPub and Mastodon, built on Cloudflare's Supercloud.
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The article discusses enhancements to TypeScript support for Cloudflare Workers, focusing on accuracy, ergonomics, and interoperability.
Brendan Coll
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The article discusses the advancements in local development for Cloudflare Workers, highlighting the release of Miniflare 3, which integrates the open-sourced workerd runtime.
Brendan Coll
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The article discusses the engineering behind Cloudflare Radar 2. 0, highlighting the architectural layers, technologies used, and the improvements made over the previous version.
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The article introduces Cloudflare Workers Templates, a collection of ready-made templates designed to help developers quickly start building applications on the Cloudflare platform.
Gift Egwuenu
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The article discusses the integration of PostgreSQL with Cloudflare Workers using Neon.
Erwin van der Koogh
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The article discusses the efforts made by Cloudflare's Workers API to align with Web Platform standards through the WinterCG initiative.
James M Snell
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The article discusses the integration of Next. js Edge Runtime with Cloudflare Pages, marking it as the fourth full-stack framework supported by the platform.
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This article discusses the integration of Cloudflare Workers with micro-frontends, presenting a fragments architecture that enhances web application performance and scalability.
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The article introduces workerd, an open-source JavaScript/Wasm runtime derived from the code that powers Cloudflare Workers.
Kenton Varda
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The article summarizes the announcements made during Cloudflare's Platform Week, highlighting enhancements to their Developer Platform, including compute, storage, and developer services.
Dawn Parzych
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The article details the author's internship experience as a Software Development Intern at Cloudflare, focusing on the development of a Zone Copier web application that simplifies the configuration...
Ulysses Kee
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Cloudflare, in collaboration with Vercel, Shopify, and contributors from Node. js and Deno, has launched the Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group (WinterCG).
James M Snell
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Miniflare 2. 0 is a fully-local development and testing tool for Cloudflare Workers, enhancing the developer experience with modular design, reduced package size, and improved accuracy.
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This article discusses the integration of the Remix framework with Cloudflare Pages, highlighting its capabilities for building full stack applications.
Greg Brimble
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The article discusses how Zaraz utilizes Cloudflare Workers to enhance the security and performance of third-party tools on websites.
Yo'av Moshe
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This article announces the general availability of native support for Stripe’s JavaScript SDK in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate payment processing into their applic...
Kristian Freeman
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Wrangler 2. 0 introduces a new developer experience for Cloudflare Workers, emphasizing speed and simplicity in development.
Ashcon Partovi
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Cloudflare Workers now support JavaScript modules, allowing developers to import and export code more effectively.
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The article introduces Cloudflare's new support for relational database connectors, specifically for PostgreSQL and MySQL, aimed at enhancing the development experience on the Cloudflare Workers pl...
Kabir Sikand
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