Here is what Cloudflare Workers do

I used cloudflare workers to fix a problem I had with my Cloudapp screenshot service. Pretty sweet!

[franksonjohnson]

Using the "move line" keyboard shortcut in VS Code to animate a diagram of how service workers work is one of my favorite dev youtube moments in months 😂 just wonderful.

[Chaoticaa]

While my use-case for CF workers if pretty different from yours, I feel like you found an incredible use-case to really show the power of this platform. Short video, but answers everything I needed to know to confirm that this is exactly the platform I was looking for. Thanks for the great video. 👍

[JamesQQuick]

Really cool and practical example. Thanks Wes!

[mysticaltech]

Damn, first time I ever see such a powerful trick, Cloudflare is great, thank you and keep up the amazing work.

[alvechy]

For other watchers: you can use regular expressions in Workers, so the last part of finding image URL will be more readable.

[kumarvishalben]

Moral Of The Story:
use subfolder for random named stuff.

[chris-ewwl]

Wes, it's not a nodejs script, It's Javascript using the Workers API. They run via Isolates which is a lighter construct compared to node running in a VM.

[heyimamaker]

Lol, I use Droplr and for fun, just tried adding /content.jpg and now I can hotlink the screenshots.
So in a roundabout way, thanks for showing me that :)



Also, the workers look really cool!

[r-i-ch]

"If you want to replace every instance of 'cloud' with 'butt' on a website, you could absolutely do that here."

saywhatnow? 🤣😄😆

[nick-leffler]

Remember also by enabling that orange cloud limits your max_upload_size to 100MB. Looks like you use mainly pictures so nothing to worry about, but keep that in mind.

[TeeKaaY]

That off axis headset is killing my OCD!

[matthealy]

I didn't know Jeremy Renner could code this well!

[JosephChambers]

Now we saw css30, and your angular ideas :) haha.

[offir]

Hi Wes, why didn't you use Url Rewrite instead of a worker?

[DavidElstob]

Cool video, Wes. Watched a few times now.


Is it possible to intercept google analytics and append the headers?

[IDOLIKIofficial]

Great content Wes! One question though -- To stop unnecessary request couldn't you put the route of the worker to *wes.io/*/content ? And that way you also don't have to check for forwarding request without /content? Cheers!

[BrosZim]

Could you set the route for the worker to *wes.io/*/content* so that it is only used for the image requests and not the page requests?

[MohamedSaleh]

Very cool! Another cool thing you could do is to redirect wes.io to wesbos.com (and properly set the referrer) because I think that wes.io is a pretty cool domain name!

[connect-r]

How to make Cookie stuffing whit cloud flare workers?

[vitorvidal]

"Why Wes posted a video about the work environment at Cloudflare?"