As of August 5th, 2025 and wrangler 4.28.0, Cloudflare Workers extends its Node.js compatibility efforts, and now supports running Express.js apps directly and natively (in local development, production availability coming soon)!
Express.js has long provided the Node.js ecosystem with an incredibly ergonomic way to
Statically compressing built assets can have a massive performance impact on your website, reducing the amount of data your users have to download. If you use Webpack to build your sites, there's a plugin for this called CompressionWebpackPlugin, which supports compressing assets with any supported algorithm in zlib, such as
WebAssembly (wasm) has been supported by Cloudflare Workers since 2018. Enabling WebAssembly support has extended the functionality of Workers so much in the last 5 years, enabling use-cases that simply weren't feasible in JavaScript beforehand.
However, the workflow and DX for importing wasm into your Worker via wrangler has been
Stripe and Cloudflare Worker seem like the perfect pairing - easy payments for your edge apps! But hooking them together can be a little more tricky than it seems on the surface.
There's a blog post from Cloudflare a while ago detailing this, but things have changed since then with
I've been using ShareX for many years now to quickly share images and small files with friends and coworkers online. It's a fantastic tool, and while you can use it to upload to shared image hosts like Imgur, I have advocated for years to pair it with some cloud storage
Hello! I’m James Ross. I'm CTO and Co-Founder of Nodecraft. I'm a self-taught software engineer and am excited to be working towards the future of online gaming. I'm also extremely passionate about web performance and security.