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Has anyone used web workers at the edge ... like with cloudflare workers?

• floatboth 7y ago
  Despite the similar naming, "Web Workers" is a specific browser API that has nothing to do with "the edge" or any server-side thing.
  • whereareyouwow 7y ago
    Point is well taken. I have not tried cloudflare workers yet. It seemed like at least the architecture was the same. But I guess you would not have access to the full browser API. It seems like you can still play around with request / response side of things though.
    • kentonv 7y ago
      Cloudflare Workers is so-named because it uses the same API as Service Workers, which are one kind of Web Worker. That said, Cloudflare Workers currently implements only a subset of the APIs that are normally available in the browser, though missing APIs are being added all the time. So, your understanding is basically correct. (I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)