Cloudflare Workers is a serverless platform which offers a very cheap and highly scalable way to serve your React application and run other serverless code. This is a fresh CRA project which automatically deploys to Cloudflare Workers with Github Actions, which you can fork and set up in a matter of minutes.
This setup costs $5/mo for 10 million requests per month.
You'll need a Cloudflare Workers account with
- A workers domain set up
- The Workers Unlimited subsciption ($5/mo)
To start your own project based on this template, just click "Use this template" or visit this link: https://github.com/lappalj4/cloudflare-worker-cra/generate
First, open up wrangler.toml and change the name property - this will be the subdomain that your app is published on.
Your Cloudflare workers domain will be of the format {your-worker-domain}.workers.dev. When you publish an app on a Worker,
it will be published on a subdomain corresponding to your app name - cloudflare-worker-cra.{your-worker-domain}.workers.dev by default.
To get your account ID:
- Go to https://dash.cloudflare.com > Workers
- Copy your account ID
To create a new API Token:
- Go to https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens > Create Token
- Give your token a name (i.e. Github Actions)
- Choose start with template
- Select the "Edit Cloudflare Workers" template
- Account Resources > Include > {your account}
- Zone Resources > Include > All zones from account > {your account}
Once done, navigate to your GitHub repository > Settings > Secrets and add the following secrets:
- Name: CF_API_TOKEN
- Value: your-api-token
- Name: CF_ACCOUNT_ID
- Value: your-account-id
PS: Your account id isn't really a secret and could be shared freely, but I feel it's just more convenient to store this configuration within the GitHub secrets instead of the repository code.
That's it! Now, just push a new commit into master and you'll find your React app deployed at {app-name}.{your-worker-domain}.workers.dev