remix-cloudflare-template

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npx create-remix@latest --template edmundhung/remix-cloudflare-template

What's included?

Development

Before start, copy .dev.vars.example and name it .dev.vars with the required secrets.

cp .dev.vars.example .dev.vars

To starts the vite dev server:

npm run dev

You can also start the Playwright UI mode to test your application. You will find all the tests defined in the /tests/e2e directory.

npm run test

To test your application on the workerd runtime, you can start the wrangler dev server with:

npm run build && npm run start

New environment variable & secret

To add a new secret, please update the value on the .dev.vars file.

For the rest of the environment variable, you can update the var section on the wrangler.toml file with the new variable:

[vars]
NEW_VARIABLE = "..."

The variables will be available from the env object in the context.

Setup a KV Namespace

To setup a new KV namespace on the development environment, update wrangler.toml with another object similar to the cache namespace as shown below:

kv_namespaces = [
  { binding = "cache", id = "cache" },
  { binding = "new_namespace", id = "new_namespace" }
]

Note that the id has no effect on the dev environment. You can use the same name for both id and binding. The namespace will be available form the env object in the context.

Generate env types

You can generate the types of the env object based on wrangler.toml and .dev.vars with:

npx wrangler types

Deployment

Before your first deployment, make sure all the environment variables and bindings are set properly on the Cloudlfare Dashboard.

Creating a new application

To create a new application on the Cloudflare Dashboard, select Workers and Pages from the menu and click on Create Application. You can then follow the instructions based on your needs.

Setting up environment variables

To set up environment variables, select Workers and Pages from the menu and look for the application details. You will find the environment variables section under the Settings tab.

Setting up KV namespaces

To set up a new KV namespaces, you need to create a new namespace first through the KV menu under Workers and Pages and click Create a namespace.

After creating the namespace, you can bind the namespace to the application from the application details page. You can find the setting from the Functions section under the Settings tab.

Debugging

If your application is not working properly, you can find the real-time logs in the Functions tab from the deployment details page.