Connecting to production: the architecture of remote bindings

Remote bindings are bindings that connect to a deployed resource on your Cloudflare account instead of a locally simulated resource – and recently, we announced that remote bindings are now generally available. 

With this launch, you can now connect to deployed resources like R2 buckets and D1 databases while running Worker code on your local machine. This means you can test your local code changes against real data and services, without the overhead of deploying for each iteration. 

In this blog post, we’ll dig into the technical details of how we built it, creating a seamless local development experience.

A key part of the Cloudflare Workers platform has been the ability to develop your code locally without having to deploy it every time you wanted to test something – though the way we’ve supported this has changed greatly over the years. 

We started with wrangler dev running in remote mode. This works by deploying and connecting to a preview version of your Worker that runs on Cloudflare’s network every time you make a change to your code, allowing you to test things out as you develop. However, remote mode isn’t perfect — Continue reading

A whole new Quick Edit in Cloudflare Workers

Quick Edit is a development experience for Cloudflare Workers, embedded right within the Cloudflare dashboard. It’s the fastest way to get up and running with a new worker, and lets you quickly preview and deploy changes to your code.

We’ve spent a lot of recent time working on upgrading the local development experience to be as useful as possible, but the Quick Edit experience for editing Workers has stagnated since the release of workers.dev. It’s time to give Quick Edit some love and bring it up to scratch with the expectations of today's developers.

Before diving into what’s changed—a quick overview of the current Quick Edit experience:

We used the robust Monaco editor, which took us pretty far—it’s even what VSCode uses under the hood! However, Monaco is fairly limited in what it can do. Developers are used to the full power of their local development environment, with advanced IntelliSense support and all the power of a full-fledged IDE. Compared to that, a single file text editor is a step-down in expressiveness and functionality.

VSCode for Web

Today, we’re rolling out a new Quick Edit experience for Workers, powered by VSCode for Web. This is a huge Continue reading