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Quick Start

This guide walks you through building your first Cloudwerk application with pages, data loading, and API routes.

Create Your First Page

Section titled “Create Your First Page”

  1. Create a new page file at app/page.tsx:

    // app/page.tsx
    export default function HomePage() {
      return (
        <div>
          <h1>Welcome to Cloudwerk</h1>
          <p>Your full-stack framework for Cloudflare Workers.</p>
        </div>
      );
    }

  2. Start the dev server:

    Terminal window
    pnpm dev

  3. Open http://localhost:8787 to see your page.

Add Data Loading

Section titled “Add Data Loading”

Cloudwerk uses loader() functions for server-side data fetching:

// app/page.tsx
import type { PageProps } from '@cloudwerk/core'
import { db } from '@cloudwerk/core/bindings'


export async function loader() {
  const { results: posts } = await db
    .prepare('SELECT id, title, excerpt FROM posts ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 10')
    .all()


  return { posts }
}


interface Props extends PageProps {
  posts: Array<{ id: string; title: string; excerpt: string }>
}


export default function HomePage({ posts }: Props) {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Latest Posts</h1>
      <ul>
        {posts.map((post) => (
          <li key={post.id}>
            <a href={`/posts/${post.id}`}>{post.title}</a>
            <p>{post.excerpt}</p>
          </li>
        ))}
      </ul>
    </div>
  )
}

Create Dynamic Routes

Section titled “Create Dynamic Routes”

Use brackets [param] for dynamic route segments:

// app/posts/[id]/page.tsx
import type { PageProps } from '@cloudwerk/core'
import { NotFoundError } from '@cloudwerk/core'
import { params } from '@cloudwerk/core/context'
import { db } from '@cloudwerk/core/bindings'


export async function loader() {
  const post = await db
    .prepare('SELECT id, title, content FROM posts WHERE id = ?')
    .bind(params.id)
    .first()


  if (!post) {
    throw new NotFoundError('Post not found')
  }


  return { post }
}


interface Props extends PageProps {
  post: { id: string; title: string; content: string }
}


export default function PostPage({ post }: Props) {
  return (
    <article>
      <h1>{post.title}</h1>
      <div>{post.content}</div>
    </article>
  )
}

Add a Layout

Section titled “Add a Layout”

Layouts wrap pages and persist across navigation:

// app/layout.tsx
import type { LayoutProps } from '@cloudwerk/core';


export default function RootLayout({ children }: LayoutProps) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
        <title>My Cloudwerk App</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <nav>
          <a href="/">Home</a>
          <a href="/about">About</a>
        </nav>
        <main>{children}</main>
        <footer>
          <p>Built with Cloudwerk</p>
        </footer>
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Create an API Route

Section titled “Create an API Route”

API routes handle HTTP requests without rendering UI:

// app/api/posts/route.ts
import { DB } from '@cloudwerk/core/bindings'
import { json } from '@cloudwerk/core'


export async function GET() {
  const { results: posts } = await DB
    .prepare('SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY created_at DESC')
    .all()


  return json(posts)
}


export async function POST(request: Request) {
  const body = await request.json()
  const id = crypto.randomUUID()


  await DB
    .prepare('INSERT INTO posts (id, title, content, created_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)')
    .bind(id, body.title, body.content, new Date().toISOString())
    .run()


  return json({ id, title: body.title }, { status: 201 })
}

Add Middleware

Section titled “Add Middleware”

Middleware runs before route handlers:

// app/middleware.ts
import type { Middleware } from '@cloudwerk/core';


export const middleware: Middleware = async (request, next) => {
  const start = Date.now();


  // Run the route handler
  const response = await next();


  // Add timing header
  const duration = Date.now() - start;
  response.headers.set('X-Response-Time', `${duration}ms`);


  return response;
};

Deploy to Cloudflare

Section titled “Deploy to Cloudflare”

Deploy your application globally:

Terminal window
pnpm deploy

Your app is now live on Cloudflare Workers!

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”