You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
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Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#2I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions. Debugging is hell, but for quick projects like this I'll definitely look into it again. These days Railway is my go-to for hosting "throw-away" projects.
Always wondering how its going for folks that are using Cloudflare Workers as their main infra?
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#3Do they still blow up your billing during DDoS?
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#4I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions. Debugging is hell, but for quick projects like this I'll definitely look into it again. These days Railway is my go-to for hosting "throw-away" projects. Always wondering how its going for folks that are using Cloudflare Workers as their main infra?
> Debugging is hell
Most people won't care because the extent of their debugging skills is console.log, echo, print. repeat 5000 times.
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#5No I cannot, because I usually don't use the programming languages it supports.
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#6Cloudflare Workers has really improved lately, e.g. "Observations" and "Metrics", and on top of that their product suite keeps growing all the time. If you use Astro[1] together with Cloudflare then you have a solution that is at least on par with NextJS and Vercel, but that only costs a fraction. My latest project[2] also uses Astro and Cloudflare and it is rendered on the "edge" (i.e. SSR) in about 100ms – you won't get better performance.
[1]: https://astro.build
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#7I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions. Debugging is hell, but for quick projects like this I'll definitely look into it again. These days Railway is my go-to for hosting "throw-away" projects. Always wondering how its going for folks that are using Cloudflare Workers as their main infra?
I'm building my entire back-end on CF Workers. The DX was really frustrating starting out, but I'm using Rust/WASM, which means most of my issues get caught at compile time. My suggestion: avoid all the CF offerings (DB, Pages, KV, etc.) and stick with just Workers. They're pretty stable and reliable (more so than Cloudflare itself, hehe), and once you figure out their rough edges, you'll be fine.
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#8I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions. Debugging is hell, but for quick projects like this I'll definitely look into it again. These days Railway is my go-to for hosting "throw-away" projects. Always wondering how its going for folks that are using Cloudflare Workers as their main infra?
I'm building my entire back-end on CF Workers. The DX was really frustrating starting out, but I'm using Rust/WASM, which means most of my issues get caught at compile time. My suggestion: avoid all the CF offerings (DB, Pages, KV, etc.) and stick with just Workers. They're pretty stable and reliable (more so than Cloudflare itself, hehe), and once you figure out their rough edges, you'll be fine.
What DB do you use? I tried the same for while but eventually gave up because it was incredibly restrictive and not much cheaper than a self managed VPS with some Docker containers. I mean the biggest thing that could happen to me is landing on the HN front page and a $5 per month VPS can manage that easily
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#9No I cannot, because I usually don't use the programming languages it supports.
Given that they support WASM, which then means they support traditional compiled languages life C, C++, Golang, and Rust, what're you using, Malbodge?
Re: You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
#10No I cannot, because I usually don't use the programming languages it supports.
> No I cannot, because I usually don't use the programming languages it supports.
You didn't even bothered to open the link, as it covers how the blogger vibecoded a couple of projects that convert existing projects built with different languages+frameworks to run on Cloudflare Workers.