I made my GitHub account on June 17, 2011. About two minutes later, I opened my first issue: teleporting was broken in TShock, a Terraria server mod, and I wanted to know why. Not as early as some, but early enough to remember when getting a PR merged by a
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
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
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
