Cloudflare Developers•4w ago

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

26 Replies

wen•4w ago

help

valkyrie_pilot•4w ago

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

wen•4w ago

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 ??

valkyrie_pilot•4w ago

You can make calls to other APIs from a worker. What are you trying to do here?

wen•4w ago

like so

app.get('/geo/:id', (c) => {
    let data;
    fetch(`https://api.gep/?id=${c.req.param('id')}`).then(async (result) =>
        console.log('call')
    );
    console.log(data);
    return c.text(`test`);
});

app.get('/geo/:id', (c) => {
    let data;
    fetch(`https://api.gep/?id=${c.req.param('id')}`).then(async (result) =>
        console.log('call')
    );
    console.log(data);
    return c.text(`test`);
});

but its logging undefined also call isnt being logged what u think the problem is ??

valkyrie_pilot•4w ago

then is not async You should do some research on async in javascript. However... cloudflare workers don't use express, so...

wen•4w ago

nah cuz in my actual code i need to do result.json() which returns a promise

wen•4w ago

wen•4w ago

im using hono

valkyrie_pilot•4w ago

can you should your actual code?

wen•4w ago

app.get('/geo/:id', (c) => {
    let data;
    fetch(`https://api.ip2location.io/?key=[key]&ip=${c.req.param('id')}`).then(
        async (result) => (data = await result.json())
    );
    console.log(data);
    return c.text(`test`);
});

app.get('/geo/:id', (c) => {
    let data;
    fetch(`https://api.ip2location.io/?key=[key]&ip=${c.req.param('id')}`).then(
        async (result) => (data = await result.json())
    );
    console.log(data);
    return c.text(`test`);
});

valkyrie_pilot•4w ago

Oop redact your API key!

wen•4w ago

yup sorry

valkyrie_pilot•4w ago

Cloudflare will do a little bit of geolocation for you there, btw, in the request.cf object.

wen•4w ago

idk what that is its my 1st time

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