Cloudflare pages vs workers

Hello I don't really catch the difference between Cloudflare worker and Cloudflare pages... Cloudflare pages seems to render static pages where Cloudflare workers is a serverless service (for backend stuff, db, ...). That said if I'd like to deploy a Sveltkit app it will be on Cloudflare pages if I use it only for my frontend and Cloudflare workers (I don't really know how deploy it... do I need both pages and workers adapters https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters) for a backend + frontend app.
5 Replies
Hello, I’m Allie!
No, just use the Pages adapter.
Pierre
PierreOP16mo ago
So I can build an entire backend service (with auth....) only by using cloudlfare pages ? What the purpose of cloudflare workers then?
Cyb3r-Jak3
Cyb3r-Jak316mo ago
If you don’t need to serve static assets with your project. Workers also offers more triggers than just requests.
kelbs
kelbs10mo ago
@Cyb3r-Jok3 so it sounds like if you're building an API only, you can use workers. But if you're building a full stack app (that'll serve static assets like the js bundle and css), you need to use pages? Are there any sources I can read about this distinction? Because this was also confusing to me
Cyb3r-Jak3
Cyb3r-Jak310mo ago
You don't need to use Pages to serve static assets, it is just free to do so. Please also make your own post rather than reviving old ones.
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