The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open source
May 9, 2022Rita Kozlov

Summary
This post announces the open-sourcing of the Cloudflare Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license. This addresses developer concerns about vendor lock-in and the desire for local development environments. The runtime was built with specific security and performance guarantees for a multi-tenant edge environment, diverging from traditional server-side JavaScript and leveraging the Service Workers API model.