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I Open-Sourced My Production Backend Architecture — Here's What's Inside
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I Open-Sourced My Production Backend Architecture — Here's What's Inside

via Dev.to WebdevTyposbro1mo ago

Most "starter templates" give you a hello-world endpoint and wish you luck. When I started building my production app on Cloudflare Workers, I spent weeks figuring out how to structure the codebase so it wouldn't become a mess at 50+ endpoints. I extracted all of that into an open-source template. No AI inference, no business logic — just the infrastructure patterns that took me months to get right. GitHub: cloudflare-hono-starter The Problem Every Cloudflare Workers tutorial shows you this: export default { fetch ( request : Request , env : Env ) { return new Response ( " Hello World! " ); }, }; Then you're on your own for: Where do routes go? How do I organize 30 endpoints? How do I validate requests and generate API docs? Where does business logic live vs database queries? How do I add auth, rate limiting, cron jobs? How do I test any of this? I needed answers to all of these. So I built them. The Stack Layer Technology Runtime Cloudflare Workers Framework Hono + Zod OpenAPI Databas

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