miniflare VS js-compute-runtime

Recently Cloudflare introduces Miniflare. As its name suggests, Miniflare is a feature-rich but miniature version of Cloudflare worker. Miniflare is a simulator that provides an environment for developing and testing Cloudflare worker scripts locally. Miniflare is written in typescript and supports most of the Cloudflare worker features like the KV database, durable objects, WebSockets, etc.

Another implementation of the above is Cloudfare workers you might be capable of grasp some ideas from here https://miniflare.dev

Is there an ETA on Miniflare v3? Ran into a problem recently using overlapping keys with forward slashes as they were not sanitized properly: https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare/issues/167

The KV API is only available on Cloudflare Workers. But, during development, Rakkas runs our app on Node.js. Fortunately, the Miniflare project has a KV implementation for Node. The other two packages that we've installed (@miniflare/kv and @miniflare/storage-memory) are what we need to be able to use the KV API during development. Let's create a src/kv-mock.ts file and create a local KV store to store our ublog posts ("twits") while testing:

I used hono (a wrapper around miniflare) to handle some of the boilerplate around request and routing logic. It's also refreshingly fast! 🔥

The simple explanation is that I'm proposing use of the Service Worker API. Cloudflare offers a flat, free, 100k requests a day if you can keep it cutting edge, has local development and testing options with miniflare and a key/value (KV) store.

When we run the dev script, this will ensure that the local runtime environment Miniflare will bind a KV with the name sessionStorage to our Pages function.

Slshx is a library for building strongly-typed Discord commands (https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/application...) that run on Cloudflare Workers (https://workers.cloudflare.com/), using a React-inspired syntax (hooks and JSX). It supports all Discord command types/options, autocomplete and interactive message components. During development, it automatically deploys your commands whenever you change your code.

I created this because I think Cloudflare Workers are a great fit for hosting Discord commands, but there wasn't an easy way to get started that had a fun development experience. I also wanted to see what a Miniflare-first (https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare) library could look like.

There are multiple JavaScript runtimes. SpiderMonkey is one example that has nothing to do with Node.js, see (js-compute-runtime)[https://github.com/fastly/js-compute-runtime].

We listened to the community feedback, filled in feature gaps, and addressed many bugs in the SDK. Not only that, we’ve also overhauled the SDK reference docs making it easier for you to know what’s supported and how to implement the features. All the Fastly specific features of the JS SDK now have interactive example applications in the documentation.

These are good questions! Here's some answers from the corner of the world I know best as a Wasmtime contributor at Fastly:

1. Spidermonkey.wasm is the basis of Fastly's JavaScript on Compute@Edge support. We have found it to be faster than QuickJS. The source code is here: https://github.com/fastly/js-compute-runtime.

2. Fastly Compute@Edge is built on wasmtime. You can develop web services for it in Rust, JS, and Go: https://developer.fastly.com/learning/compute/

3. Fastly's multi-tenant platform is closed source, but our single-tenant local development platform, which also uses wasmtime under the hood as well, is open source: https://github.com/fastly/viceroy. It isn't a big leap to make viceroy multi-tenant: Wasmtime provides everything you need, and all Viceroy would have to do is dispatch on e.g. HTTP host header to the correct tenant. Our multi-tenant platform is closed source because it is very specialized for use on Fastly's edge, not because the multi-tenant aspect is special.

btw. for what it's worth their javascript to wasm is opensource:

- https://github.com/fastly/js-compute-runtime

- https://github.com/tschneidereit/spidermonkey-wasi-embedding

and besides that it is slower than nodejs it is still plenty fast (no matter that it is not as fast as they want) btw. it's startup is faster than node. (maybe better pgo might help)