Can i know how to create an Express App using cloudflare workers

Iam new to workers as i can see the workers are pro honon kind of thing
I would love to explore hono also but for now can i know if there is any blog or video sources to know how to build an backend uding express and cloudflare workers

Walshy•10/5/24, 12:58 PM

Express isn't really for Workers, it's for a server. This is a serverless world where things run on invocation rather than all the time

Hono is a good alternative

Md.SadiqOP•10/5/24, 1:07 PM

Ok is there any service from Cloudfare from which I can build backends and deploy them

Cyb3r-Jak3•10/5/24, 2:59 PM

Md.SadiqOP•10/5/24, 3:18 PM

can i even deploy a backend on cloudfare

Cyb3r-Jak3•10/5/24, 3:21 PM

Depends what you mean by a backend. If you are asking to run something that is always listening on a port then no. But if you are looking to run serverless as your backend then yes

Jürgen Leschner•10/6/24, 9:45 AM

Hi @Md.Sadiq
To learn more about workers, maybe check out https://workers.cloudflare.com/playground or try running npm create cloudflarenpm create cloudflare to scaffold a new project on your machine.

CCyb3r-Jak3 Depends what you mean by a backend. If you are asking to run something that is a...

Md.SadiqOP•10/6/24, 9:57 AM

I have an existing backend written in express without using Wrangler how I can add Wrangler to it and deploy serverless on cloudflare

Jürgen Leschner•10/6/24, 10:19 AM

afaik express uses node apis like http and https which are not available in the workers platform, so you can't deploy those express apps directly using wrangler, even with the latest nodejs_compat_v2 flag. see

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