Hosting an API
So I am new to making web apps and I was trying to make a website with express in backend. I didn't want to spend any money to host it so i tried vercel and after countless errors and asking for help in various server, it turns out u can't host your own api endpoints on your vercel app. So I took some advice from other people and they told me to keep the API on a different server. I remembered that my friend and I share a VPS so I hosted my API on it (Without any domain so i was making requests using the VPS' ip). It worked like a charm on my local machine but I guess vercel doesn't allow outgoing requests to urls without https (SSL certificates) and since my VPS doesnt have a certificate vercel kept requests to it.
I asked for help about this and someone told me to try cloudflare and they also mentioned pages and functions. I've never used cloudflare before so I have no idea what to do. Please help
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help
What I would do is purchase a domain, and host your website from your VPS proxied through cloudflare.
Potentially using Cloudflare Tunnels, it is a fantastic product
hey so
im trying to use cf workers
to host my api there
also using wrangler
so like
can we make api calls in a worker ??
You can make calls to other APIs from a worker.
What are you trying to do here?
like so
but its logging undefined
also
call
isnt being logged
what u think the problem is ??then
is not async
You should do some research on async
in javascript. However... cloudflare workers don't use express, so...nah cuz
in my actual code
i need to do result.json() which returns a promise
im using hono
can you should your actual code?
Oop redact your API key!
yup sorry
Cloudflare will do a little bit of geolocation for you there, btw, in the request.cf object.
idk what that is its my 1st time
if you want to know where an IP is located, cloudflare provides a little data on that
how do i access the said data
You probably need something more like this.
Hono seems to support async handlers, so you need your whole handler to be async. That way you can actually wait for there to be data there before you try to print it.
With hono, I am not sure. I only know with the basic Workers JS SDK.
yooo
it worked
this
tysm
🫂
yw!
async is very tricky, heh
enjoy learning to code!
thanks !!
GitHub
How do I access cf object on the context? · honojs · Discussion #961
I have just started a new project with hono 3.0.2 using create-hono CLI. I could previously access the cloudflare object and its properties in workers project with Hono but they seem to be not avai...
yep
got a problem @gwapes
im using wrangler
and trying to use namespaces
and docs show to use
env.[namespace_name].put(...)
but i get ReferenceError: env is not defined
i don’t know on that one
np