I like it but not that enthusiastic about JavaScript echoing html. What about having simple html templates that call back to the worker for the posts and the worker return json?
6 comments already complaining that this isn't "simple".
I suggest we instead treat this post as if the title was "Show HN: a simple text blog demonstrating how to use Cloudflare workers and KV store" - that way we get to have a more interesting conversation.
I tried this out and found it useful for exploring Cloudflare workers. One thing I learned: KV and durable objects are not the same thing. KV is eventually consistent, durable objects is the thing where all traffic has to be routed to the same node since it's dealing with a read/write store that has read-after-write guarantees.
I think what would be amazing is if WhatsApp creates a mobile number based website which anyone can access if they know the mobile number. Access through whatsapp mobile app.
I have been working on something similar this morning. I want to create a simple blog to document my thoughts without having to deal much about technical stuff and maintenance and spend a few hours diving the rabbit hole of jekyll blogs.
While their documentation(https://jekyllrb.com/docs/) is one of the best resources to learn, I have found my job much more straightforward using one of the pre-built themes that is available on the internet. With deployment to github pages almost instantaneous, I can see myself updating the blog much more often.
This is nice, apart from a quick play when they were new I've never really looked at CF Workers and KV again. This made me go and have a look at the docs and find that it's actually looks quite useful. I didn't know they'd added Python and other languages, so that's cool in itself.
I like Jon's example here, a single and fairly short file that does just enough to demo this all, nice.
This is great, thanks! It's always useful to see these "here's how to do something useful with a new technology" demos, and I've been wondering how Cloudflare's offerings work exactly, so thanks!
Now we need the equivalent thing for Durable Objects! Maybe a chat room, hm.
Simple would be if you would just write text files, drop it somewhere simple, either a webserver or GitHub pages or some hosted service, and be done with it.
I'm sorry Dan, but whose work? His or the entire JS community as a whole? If the latter then yes, I'm guilty as charged, because I deeply believe that we went way too far and the fact that a few years old smartphone can't handle sites like LinkedIn is just ridiculous. If the former, then, like I've stated in my opening statement it's a cool experiment you can do over a weekend if you want to learn something new or brush off your skills but is it really worth calling a "blog engine" or place on 1st page of HN?
It's quite a smear to write "He's probably unemployed at the moment or just brushing off before the next interview.". Cheap smears are a form of casual dismissal and devalue this site.
I like it but not that enthusiastic about JavaScript echoing html. What about having simple html templates that call back to the worker for the posts and the worker return json?
6 comments already complaining that this isn't "simple".
I suggest we instead treat this post as if the title was "Show HN: a simple text blog demonstrating how to use Cloudflare workers and KV store" - that way we get to have a more interesting conversation.
Thanks—we've put that (more or less) in the title above.
(Submitted title was 'Show HN: Simple Text Blog")
I tried this out and found it useful for exploring Cloudflare workers. One thing I learned: KV and durable objects are not the same thing. KV is eventually consistent, durable objects is the thing where all traffic has to be routed to the same node since it's dealing with a read/write store that has read-after-write guarantees.
Also Cloudflare KV provides a simple dashboard interface for adding and removing KV entries: https://gist.github.com/simonw/1e072d04960616970381a433bfca7...
I think what would be amazing is if WhatsApp creates a mobile number based website which anyone can access if they know the mobile number. Access through whatsapp mobile app.
That's called a Telegram bot and you can write one yourself.
I have been working on something similar this morning. I want to create a simple blog to document my thoughts without having to deal much about technical stuff and maintenance and spend a few hours diving the rabbit hole of jekyll blogs.
While their documentation(https://jekyllrb.com/docs/) is one of the best resources to learn, I have found my job much more straightforward using one of the pre-built themes that is available on the internet. With deployment to github pages almost instantaneous, I can see myself updating the blog much more often.
The blog which I am currently working on: https://jagadeeshposni.github.io The theme I have used: minimal mistakes
This is nice, apart from a quick play when they were new I've never really looked at CF Workers and KV again. This made me go and have a look at the docs and find that it's actually looks quite useful. I didn't know they'd added Python and other languages, so that's cool in itself.
I like Jon's example here, a single and fairly short file that does just enough to demo this all, nice.
I'd have thought the SQLite database (D1) would be a more obvious fit for a blog?
I was stoked on D1 when it was announced.
But the maximum DB size is 10GB (https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits/).
Really?
This is great, thanks! It's always useful to see these "here's how to do something useful with a new technology" demos, and I've been wondering how Cloudflare's offerings work exactly, so thanks!
Now we need the equivalent thing for Durable Objects! Maybe a chat room, hm.
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What's simpler about this than just uploading .html files?
This seems actually very complicated for what it does.
Just uploading HTML files won't teach you how to use Cloudflare workers and their KV store.
A "simple text blog" shouldn't need to use anything of the sort.
Sure, but you're getting hung up on the link title and not the actual substance.
Imagine if the title was this instead: "Show HN: a simple text blog demonstrating how to use Cloudflare workers and KV store"
Would simple text chatroom demand the kv?
No.
Yah, I guess you could use WebRTC or some other way of exchanging messages now that I think about it.
You don't even need realtime. You can get away with just having people POST to a backend, updating a database and letting people refresh the page.
Why do all that when you could have the server write simple text files to the disk?
I was going to say, just upload .txt
How is that simple?
Simple would be if you would just write text files, drop it somewhere simple, either a webserver or GitHub pages or some hosted service, and be done with it.
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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm sorry Dan, but whose work? His or the entire JS community as a whole? If the latter then yes, I'm guilty as charged, because I deeply believe that we went way too far and the fact that a few years old smartphone can't handle sites like LinkedIn is just ridiculous. If the former, then, like I've stated in my opening statement it's a cool experiment you can do over a weekend if you want to learn something new or brush off your skills but is it really worth calling a "blog engine" or place on 1st page of HN?
It's quite a smear to write "He's probably unemployed at the moment or just brushing off before the next interview.". Cheap smears are a form of casual dismissal and devalue this site.
This is anything but simple.
Suggestion: "plain text blog"