Are workers slower than pages? A Hugo project which takes less than 90 seconds on pages is now takin

Are workers slower than pages? A Hugo project which takes less than 90 seconds on pages is now taking over 200 seconds on workers.

MMadDog Are workers slower than pages? A Hugo project which takes less than 90 seconds o...

Chaika•5/27/25, 8:10 PM

Build Environment wise? Yes, it's been my experience the Workers Builds are slower
Production wise? It's all the same tech, Pages Functions are Workers, and both Pages Assets and Workers Static Assets are based off the same stuff, both use KV for storage and such, Workers Custom Domains are faster then Pages Custom Domains by a solid ~20ms tho

Trojan•5/27/25, 8:29 PM

does cloudflare snippets block waituntil?

Trojan•5/27/25, 8:37 PM

nvm

jordanthornquest•5/27/25, 9:53 PM

When I run opennextjs-cloudflare buildopennextjs-cloudflare build and opennextjs-cloudflare deployopennextjs-cloudflare deploy, do these commands read the values of .dev.vars.dev.vars? If so, when deploying from a local machine, what's a good practice to avoid this?

Éric•5/27/25, 11:04 PM

Hey everyone!

I'm new to Cloudflare Workers and exploring caching strategies.

Current Setup: SSG blog site (like Pages). Goal: Rebuild with a framework (Hono/RedwoodJS) using a headless CMS (GraphQL) and achieve static HTML-like speed.

What are your best tips for caching with Workers in this scenario? Specifically, how can I make dynamic content from a headless CMS feel as fast as a fully static site?

Thanks in advance!

Fernando Dilland•5/28/25, 1:55 AM

I made an open source project with Rust which is an api deployed in CF Workers, where it stores hashed passwords with Argon2id in Cloudflare KV, with an api for registration, login, change user and delete user, generates JWT back to authenticate, perfect for https://github.com/fernandodilland/cloudflare-workers-turnstile-kv-rust-auth-argon2id-api websites.

GitHub

GitHub - fernandodilland/cloudflare-workers-turnstile-kv-rust-auth-...

A Cloudflare Workers project leveraging to power a secure authentication API. It stores user credentials in Cloudflare KV using Argon2id for robust hashing and integrates Cloudflare Turnstile for b...

FFernando Dilland I made an open source project with Rust which is an api deployed in CF Workers, ...

Fernando Dilland•5/28/25, 1:56 AM

Suggestions and issues for improvement are welcome!

Yomisana•5/28/25, 7:36 AM

Hi I just notice cf docs of page website have one said migrate to Workers which mean in future works completely finish build will disable pages?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/static-assets/migrate-from-pages/

Cloudflare Docs

Migrate from Pages to Workers

A guide for migrating from Cloudflare Pages to Cloudflare Workers. Includes a compatibility matrix for comparing the features of Cloudflare Workers and Pages.

YYomisana Hi I just notice cf docs of page website have one said migrate to Workers which ...

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 9:47 AM

I like Application Functions a lot more than Workers for (semi) static pages. Setup is simple and straight forward, chose git repo -> deploy / done. There is more to set for workers and without wrangler you will have troubles setting up everything. I would suggest unifying the two behind the scenes but keeping pages like worker templates, keeping it stupid simple for folks wanting to do something super straight forward. - Do not go the AWS route by making everything super abstracted and granular and necessarily super complex, PLEASE!!!

LLeesy Hi, I have two workers setup, first is my website which is running with smart pl...

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 9:49 AM

To my knowledge you need to pass any data you want to get from the front worker to the api worker yourself. I used this mechanism to create security insulation for workers that needed to share session details

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 12:23 PM

When workers are called they respond from the closest node, in your case 2 workers calling one another would most likely be on the same exact node if not then at the very least same exact location! So basically if you have the location of the main worker you have the one of the subworker too.

Aamir assari i want to make worker that get my emails and send them to Telegram bot. all code...

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 12:27 PM

I don't think there is such a mechanic, you will need to provide the modules yourself

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 12:39 PM

Well I'd download the public library and then load it like any ol module... import { PostalMime } from 'path_to_my_lib/posta-mime.min.js'; Or something along those lines

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 12:46 PM

You need to download the libraries to your project then you can use them, you can not load remote online libraries

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 1:06 PM

Don't think you can do this from the workers ui to be honest. Don't see how

CChaika Build Environment wise? Yes, it's been my experience the Workers Builds are slow...

MadDogOP•5/28/25, 4:25 PM

Yes! During build time, not in production.

dave•5/28/25, 10:50 PM

This makes no sense to me, why is 6,7 == friday and saturday?

Ddave This makes no sense to me, why is 6,7 == friday and saturday?

Chaika•5/28/25, 10:55 PM

That's all non standard cron stuff so differs a lot between systems

Chaika•5/28/25, 10:55 PM

Days of the week go from 1 = Sunday to 7 = Saturday, which is different on some other cron systems (where 0 = Sunday and 6 = Saturday). To avoid ambiguity you may prefer to use the three latter abbreviations (e.g. SUN rather than 1).

Chaika•5/28/25, 10:55 PM

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/cron-triggers/

CChaika > Days of the week go from 1 = Sunday to 7 = Saturday, which is different on som...

dave•5/28/25, 10:56 PM

oh fudge that's confusing. Thanks, I switched to the abbreviations.

abelsj60•5/29/25, 12:58 PM

I'm converting a Pages (Remix 2) project to Workers w/Static Assets (React Router 7).

I'm working off of the Cloudflare/RR7 template from the RR7 template repo (it had input from someone at Cloudflare, according to GitHub).

This template doesn't say anything special about static assets.

Is anything special required for that feature to work, other than a definition for where they're stored?

Or are static assets just "automatically part of all workers projects" now?

0x146231489231923•5/29/25, 4:32 PM

hey who is building with workers, chat?

Aabelsj60 I'm converting a Pages (Remix 2) project to Workers w/Static Assets (React Route...

Max•5/29/25, 6:43 PM

The documentation says that prerendering is currently not supported
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/frameworks/framework-guides/react-router/#creating-a-full-stack-react-router-app

Cloudflare Docs

React Router (formerly Remix)

Create a React Router application and deploy it to Cloudflare Workers

MMax The documentation says that prerendering is currently not supported https://deve...

abelsj60•5/29/25, 7:01 PM

I know, that's weird, but, in RR, I believe prerendering refers to HTML documents. I'm concerned with static assets — images (png, avif, webp, etc) and the like.

The Static Assets feature is supposed to be what's replacing the magic of Pages.

In this case, I wasn't sure if the template I use matters or not.

I guess I'll just add this to wrangler.json and hope for the best:

  "assets": {
    "directory": "./whatever",
    ...
  }

  "assets": {
    "directory": "./whatever",
    ...
  }

abelsj60•5/29/25, 7:01 PM

Thanks.

Aabelsj60 I know, that's weird, but, in RR, I believe prerendering refers to HTML document...

Max•5/29/25, 8:15 PM

In the assests docs is stated:
"""
The following options are available under the assets key.
- directory string optional
Folder of static assets to be served.
Not required if you're using the Cloudflare Vite plugin, which will automatically point to the client build output.
"""

So when using react-router and cloudflares vite plugin, it seems like this is not necessary.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/configuration/#assets

Cloudflare Docs

Configuration

Use a configuration file to customize the development and deployment setup for your Worker project and other Developer Platform products.

MMax In the assests docs is stated: """ The following options are available under the...

abelsj60•5/29/25, 8:37 PM

Thanks. I see what you're saying, but it's a little like Swiss cheese to me.

I have an active project with assets stored. I'm copying files over for Workers in a bid to preserve git history, which was probably a mistake. Easier to trash it.

I don't really understand where that build file/folder is or if it matches up with where my static assets are now (/public), or what happens if I screw up — will I get duplicates somewhere by accident?

I think you can define where the build goes, but I don't want to fiddle with that before I understand more, meaning, before something's running, and I don't want extra folders around I don't need or understand. Etc.

The Docs are OK. ChatGPT fills some stuff in. Was mostly hoping for some human expertise, sans docs. I'll muddle through. Thanks again.

Alejandro Mery•5/30/25, 1:33 AM

hi, I have a worker getting preview branches built and published via wrangler by cloudflare's CI to {shorthash}-name.me.workers.dev{shorthash}-name.me.workers.dev. how can I configure it so it also makes {branch}-name.me.workers.dev{branch}-name.me.workers.dev ?

Alejandro Mery•5/30/25, 1:33 AM

it worked automatically when using the pages integration