edge-blog

A dynamic blog built to be hosted in Cloudflare using its products like Pages, D1, R2, Functions, Access and Web Analytics

Requirements

• node.js >= 16.13.0
• wrangler@d1 - For D1 support in Cli

Getting Started

Before you start, go through the post in https://arjun-g.com/posts/dynamic-blog-with-cloudflare to understand more.

If you want to create a new D1 database for the blog run the below command from the root

npm run create-db

Rename the wrangler.toml.sample in the root to wrangler.toml and fill in the below details in wrangler.toml

account_id=<Cloudflare Acccount ID>
[[ d1_databases ]]
binding = "DB"
database_name = "BLOG_DB"
database_id = <ID of the newly created or existing D1 database>
[[r2_buckets]]
binding = "STATIC"
preview_bucket_name = <Name of the bucket for preview>
bucket_name = <Name of the bucket to use in production>
[vars]
WEBSITE_ORIGIN = "http://localhost"
[env.production.vars]
WEBSITE_ORIGIN = "https://arjun-g.com"
ACCESS_DOMAIN = <Cloudflare Zero Trust domain>
ACCESS_AUD = <AUD obtained from creating the Application in cloudflare access>

Running Locally

To initiate the local database run the below command,

npm run init-local-db

Then to start the blog run,

npm start

Deploying to production

To initiate the production database run the below command. Be warned this will delete the existing data if the database is already initiated.

npm run init-prod-db

Then configure the page to auto deploy the git repo.