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
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
Up to this point, server side rendering (SSR) Vue 3 on Cloudflare Workers has not been easy (or very efficient). However, with the addition of various streaming capabilities such as renderToWebStream and pipeToWebWritable in Vue.js 3.2, this is changing.
renderToWebStream is a new API available in @vue/server-renderer
Update: As of June 2021, Firefox 89 is the first browser to support the type() function within image-set(), enabling us to do this with purely CSS.
Update 2: As of June 2023, Chrome 113, and Safari 17 also support the type() function within image-set(), making this usable in all major
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.