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Bringing a unified developer experience to Cloudflare Workers and Pages

May 17, 2023Nevi Shah, Natalie Rogers
Bringing a unified developer experience to Cloudflare Workers and Pages
SummaryAI, from the source post

This post announces the convergence of Cloudflare Workers and Pages into a single development platform. It details the 'why' behind this integration, highlighting the blurring lines between the two products and the user confusion it caused. The post outlines the vision for a unified platform that combines static asset hosting and serverless compute, integrating with storage products and providing enhanced tooling. It introduces the concept of a 'project' encompassing static assets, serverless functions, and resources. Deployment workflows will leverage GitOps, with preview deployments and environments. Local development will be unified under Wrangler CLI. The benefits of this convergence include performance, cost, and load advantages. The post also details immediate changes, such as a unified creation flow, starter templates, integrated CLI experiences for frameworks, and a merged project list dashboard.

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