Comment by max_lt

1 month ago

True, workerd is open source. But the bindings (KV, R2, D1, Queues, etc.) aren't – they're Cloudflare's proprietary services. OpenWorkers includes open source bindings you can self-host.

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buremba  1 month ago

I tried to run it locally some time ago, but it's buggy as hell when self-hosted. It's not even worth trying out given that CF itself doesn't suggest it.

  • ketanhwr  1 month ago

    I'm curious what bugs you encountered. workerd does power the local runtime when you test CF workers in dev via wrangler, so we don't really expect/want it to be buggy..

    • buremba  1 month ago

      There is a big "WARNING: This is a beta. Work in progress" message in https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

      Specifically, half of the services operate locally, and the other half require CF services. I mainly use Claude Code to develop, and it often struggles to replicate the local environment, so I had to create another worker in CF for my local development.

      Initially, the idea was to use CF for my side projects as it's much easier than K8S, but after wrestling with it for a month, decided that it's not really worth investing that much, and I moved back to using K8S with FluxCD instead, even though it's overkill as well.

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