Serverless Rendering with Cloudflare Workers

This post details how to implement server-side rendering at the network edge using Cloudflare Workers, Workers Sites, Wrangler, and HTMLRewriter. It demonstrates building a dynamic web application ('Peer With Cloudflare') that fetches data from the PeeringDB API and embeds it into static HTML served from the edge. The post covers generating a Workers Site, using URL parameters for state management, modeling data from third-party APIs, and leveraging HTMLRewriter for dynamic content modification. It highlights the benefits of edge-rendered content for caching, SEO, and link previews, while mitigating the latency concerns of traditional server-side rendering.