website-cache-worker

👷🏻‍♂️ Rust Cloudflare Worker to handle HTTP requests

Motivation

The Rusty Cloudflare Worker is an template project to have a Cloudflare worker which makes use of Rust and WASM to handle your HTTP requests.

The only relevant difference between this worker and the template from Cloudflare (Available here) is:

• This template will take the HTTP request and pass it to Rust via JSON, this means you will have an array of bytes and you limit yourself to rely on plain data. Theres no support (at the moment of this writing) for binary data.

• The HTTP Request object from JavaScript it turned into a http::Request<T> instance, which means you are able to consume the API from http::Request<T>.

• The HTTP response is built from a http::Response struct from the http crate as well.

If you don't rely on consuming the incoming HTTP Request then the: https://github.com/cloudflare/rustwasm-worker-template is your best bet.

I think that theres more we can do for performance inside of the src/core directory.

Requirements

• NodeJS: Scripts under the script/ directory require NodeJS/NPM in order to execute the npx command.
• Rust

Usage

1. Create your project by clicking on: Use template button up there.

2. In your repository settings section you must provide the following secrets:

Secret	Description
CF_EMAIL	Cloudflare user email
CF_API_KEY	Cloudflare Global API Key. Check on scripts/publish.sh to change this behavior.
CF_ACCOUNT_ID	Cloudflare Account ID
CF_ZONE_ID	Cloudflare Zone ID

These secrets are used by the .github/workflows/deploy.yml file, when a new release is created. If you want to change that refer to: .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

3. Clone the project locally, the logic for your application should live in the src/app directory. The src/app/mod.rs file contains the logic to receive a http::Request and return a http::Response.

4. When you are done with your implementation release your worker by pushing a tag prefixed with v as follows:

git tag -a  v0.1.0 -m "First release"

git push origin main --follow-tags

If nothing is changed in the deploy workflow, this should trigger a deploy.

Scripts

Some scripts are available to help you in your workflow. These scripts are available in the scripts/ directory.

Filename	Description
build.sh	Runs @cloudflare/wrangler build to build your worker
make-wrangler.sh	Creates a wrangler.toml file
publish.sh	Publishes your worker using @cloudflare/wrangler publish. You must provide: CF_EMAIL with your cloudflare account email and CF_API_KEY with your Global API Key. Refer to: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/cli-wrangler/authentication#using-environment-variables for more details in case you want to change this behavior.
wrangler-dev.sh	Runs your worker locally. You must provide the Account ID to the wrangler.toml file
wrangler-preview.sh	Uploads your worker to a preview environment with tools for debugging.

Considerations

Wrangler Dev

If you run the scripts/wrangler-dev.sh file you will have an ACCOUNT_ID to the wrangler.toml.

Otherwise you will get:

$ scripts/wrangler-dev.sh

🕵️  You can find your account_id in the right sidebar of your account's Workers page
Error: field `account_id` is required to deploy to workers.dev

As a workaround you can always use scripts/wrangler-preview.sh instead.

Contributions

All contributions to this project are welcome. Don't hesitate to either create a Pull Request, or Issue as you require.