Here is what Cloudflare Workers do

[@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.

[@sandikodev]

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[@english_chat]

Same here lol

[@WaliBD1]

I also thought the same way

[@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!

[@alvechy]

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

[@mysticaltech]

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

[@kumarvishalben]

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

[@chris-ew9wl]

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.

[@r-i-ch]

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

[@matthealy7180]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@syropian]

Fun fact, you can also do this in Droplr by just appending a "+" to the URL :)

[@heyimamaker]

@@syropian Oh nice looks like both work.

[@JosephChambers]

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

[@offir711]

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

[@TeeKaaY]

That off axis headset is killing my OCD!

[@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?

[@WesBos]

Nope - route wildcards can only be at the begin or the end of the route. Not in the middle :\

[@connect-r]

How to make Cookie stuffing whit cloud flare workers?

[@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!

[@vitorvidal5350]

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

[@DavidElstob73]

Cool video, Wes. Watched a few times now. Is it possible to intercept google analytics and append the headers?

[@WesBos]

I don’t think so because google analytics is on their own server

[@DavidElstob73]

@@WesBos yeah I thought that was stretching my luck. :) Self-hosting the main script it easy enough, it's the tracking pixel's expires header that I'm trying to append.

[@vanmanuk]

How much would u charge me 2 put my website on me cloudfare workers for us pls

[@MohamedSaleh01]

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!

[@ianjamiesonmusic]

Useful, thanks

[@guacamole4876]

Hey man, I need help trying to use cloudflare workers to get information from a website and output it

[@cyrusgracias4556]

I don't get it Is this same as netlify serverless functions?

[@WesBos]

Very similar, the only difference is that this runs before the DNS resolution which allows me to run serverless functions on a domain which points to a server I don't control

[@MarkJaquith]

They can do serverless stuff (just return a new Response object), but they can also operate as a really powerful proxy, that runs cheaply on every one of Cloudflare's edge servers. For instance, you could have a static website and use this to inject dynamic content.

[@owenjeremy5384]

Super Cool explanation to bad I'm not a programmer

[@zzej]

seems like a cool way to secure your app with serverless permissions

[@juniorbatista2463]

That was cool

[@lazarom9998]

I came here from googling "what is cloudflare workers" trying to find a 1 or 2 min video explaining it. Instead I got this loosy 23 min talk, and I'm tired of that bullshit, looking for a youtuber that knows to summarize

[@ahmezi]

const hasContentInUrl = request.url.indexOf("content") > -1