An introductory guide to deploying web apps on Cloudflare Workers using TanStack Start. Covers what Cloudflare Workers are, how they differ from AWS Lambda (V8 isolates vs. cold starts), key tradeoffs like request isolation requirements, and a step-by-step walkthrough of scaffolding a TanStack Start app, deploying it to Cloudflare, generating a wrangler.jsonc config, managing secrets, and using Cloudflare's typegen functionality. Part 1 of a two-part series; part 2 will cover database connections and platform-specific gotchas.
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What are Cloudflare Workers?How Much Do Cold Starts Matter?What’s the Catch?Our First Cloudflare AppMaturing Our SetupCreating our wrangler.jsonc fileWe’re Up and RunningSetting Secrets and Generating TypesUsing SecretsOnward!881 Impressions