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- **[Technologies](./technologies.md)** - Overview of the tech stack and architecture decisions
- **[Downloads Page](./downloads-page.md)** - How to add installation methods and package managers
- **[Package Publishing](./package-publishing.md)** - Guidelines for publishing packages in our monorepo
- **[Cloudflare build and deployment](./cloudflare-build-and-deployment.md)** - Overview and useful information about the Cloudflare build and deployment

## For Collaborators

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# Cloudflare Build and Deployment

The Node.js Website can be built using the [OpenNext Cloudflare adapter](https://opennext.js.org/cloudflare). Such build generates a [Cloudflare Worker](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/workers/) that can be deployed on the [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com) network using [Cloudflare Workers](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/workers/).

## Configurations

There are two key configuration files related to Cloudflare deployments.

### Wrangler Configuration

This file defines the settings for the Cloudflare Worker, which serves the website.

For more details, refer to the [Wrangler documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/configuration/).

Key configurations include:

- `main`: Points to the worker generated by the OpenNext adapter.
- `account_id`: Specifies the Cloudflare account ID. This is not required for local previews but is necessary for deployments. You can obtain an account ID for free by signing up at [dash.cloudflare.com](https://dash.cloudflare.com/login).
- This is currently set to `fb4a2d0f103c6ff38854ac69eb709272` which is the id of a Cloudflare account, named `nodejs.org`, that the nodejs team is using for testing the Cloudflare deployment.
- `build`: Defines the build command to generate Node.js filesystem polyfills required for the application to run on Cloudflare Workers. This uses the [`@flarelabs/wrangler-build-time-fs-assets-polyfilling`](https://github.com/flarelabs-net/wrangler-build-time-fs-assets-polyfilling) package.
- `alias`: Maps aliases for the Node.js filesystem polyfills generated during the build process.
- `kv_namespaces`: Contains a single KV binding definition for `NEXT_INC_CACHE_KV`. This is used to implement the Next.js incremental cache.
- This is currently set up to a KV in the `nodejs.org` Cloudflare testing account.

### OpenNext Configuration

This is the configuration for the OpenNext Cloudflare adapter, for more details on such configuration please refer to the [official OpenNext documentation](https://opennext.js.org/cloudflare/get-started#4-add-an-open-nextconfigts-file).

### Skew Protection

While Vercel offers [version skew protection](https://vercel.com/docs/skew-protection) out of the box, such mechanism is not present on the platform level in the Cloudflare network and the Open-next adapter provides its own implementation, for more details refer to the [OpenNext official Skew protection documentation](https://opennext.js.org/cloudflare/howtos/skew).

The OpenNext skew protection requires the following environment variables to be set in the Wrangler configuration file:

- `CF_WORKER_NAME`
- The name of the worker (the same as `name`)
- `CF_ACCOUNT_ID`
- The id of the Cloudflare account (this is the same as `account_id`, and again this is set to the Cloudflare testing account used by the nodejs team)
- `CF_PREVIEW_DOMAIN`
- The preview domain for the worker, given that the preview url for the testing Cloudflare deployments is `https://nodejs-website.nodejsorg.workers.dev/` the domain here is `nodejsorg`

Additionally upon deployments an extra `CF_WORKERS_SCRIPTS_API_TOKEN` environment variable needs to be set. This variable needs to be set to an API token that has the `Workers Scripts:Read` permission available on the worker's account.

## Scripts

Preview and deployment of the website targeting the Cloudflare network is implemented via the following two commands:

- `pnpm cloudflare:preview` builds the website using the OpenNext Cloudflare adapter and runs the website locally in a server simulating the Cloudflare hosting (using the [Wrangler CLI](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/))
- `pnpm cloudflare:deploy` builds the website using the OpenNext Cloudflare adapter and deploys the website to the Cloudflare network (using the [Wrangler CLI](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/))
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