Getting Started with Cloudflare Workers

Introduction

Cloudflare Workers provide a serverless execution environment that allows you to create new applications or augment existing ones without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.

Why Cloudflare Workers?

• Edge computing: Your code runs in 300+ data centers worldwide
• No cold starts: V8 isolates start in milliseconds
• Cost effective: Generous free tier with 100k requests/day

Getting Started

First, install Wrangler, the CLI tool for Cloudflare Workers:

npm install -g wrangler

Then create a new project:

wrangler init my-worker

Conclusion

Cloudflare Workers are a powerful platform for building fast, globally distributed applications.