Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group will
provide a simplified, common experience to developers no matter
where they code
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced that it is collaborating with Deno and individual core
contributors of the Node.js open source project, bringing together
three of the largest JavaScript environments, to give developers
flexibility and choice while creating the standards of the future
of edge computing. By collaborating around a common set of
standards, the effort will aim to ensure code developed in one
environment will work in another. Any developer will be able to
write and run code conforming to the set of standards–and easily
transfer it–between Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Node.js
seamlessly and without the need to rewrite an application.
“Cloudflare Workers has helped to define the standard for edge
computing. Since 2017, more than 450,000 developers have built on
Cloudflare’s developer platform and more than three million
applications have been launched,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder
and CEO of Cloudflare. “But we know we're not going to be the only
one. We think that standards are important to driving the industry
forward. That's why we're proud to be working with these other
organizations in the serverless computing space to help define the
standard for edge—what we believe will be the standard by which the
applications of the future are developed.”
Today, once an application is written in a certain environment,
it can’t be easily transferred to another. This can lead to
development teams maintaining costly architecture and wasting
resources to ensure their code continues to work and applications
still run for users as they migrate to new environments.
Cloudflare, Deno, and Node.js represent three of the largest
JavaScript environments available to developers today. With this
effort, developers will benefit from common standards, so they can
easily work across all environments based on the needs of their
business and have confidence that their code will work for users
today, and in the future.
“The future of JavaScript is Universal, the ability to move
JavaScript between many environments. That future needs to be
intentionally designed,” said Myles Borins, member of the Node.js
Technical Steering Committee. “Historically developers have had to
rely on tacit knowledge and build tools to share code across the
various JavaScript runtimes. The promise of ‘write once, run
anywhere’ will only be possible with collaborative initiatives like
the Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group.”
“Deno’s broad ecosystem success can be attributed in large parts
to our strict adherence to web platform standards,” said Luca
Casonato, Software Engineer at Deno. “We knew from the start that
Deno could only be successful if it went all in on browser
interoperability - developers and broad ecosystem trends have shown
us this bet was right. In addition to our existing standards work
with the WHATWG and W3C, we’re excited to be working with
Cloudflare and Node.js collaborators on even better runtime
interoperability.”
“Developers are asking Node.js for more interoperability with
APIs defined by Web standards,” said Matteo Collina Ph.D., Chief
Software Architect, NearForm and Node.js Technical Steering
Committee member. “However, those APIs have not been designed with
servers in mind and might require some adaptations. The WinterCG
group’s goal is to define how those APIs would behave on servers,
paving the way for better interoperability between runtimes.”
The Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group is working with
leading organizations including NearForm and Vercel to ensure that
developers’ voices were heard in the creation of a new community
group working within existing standards bodies. The API Standards
allow developers to:
- Use the best tool or framework for the job: It will be
easier to leverage tools and integrations from the community across
runtimes, allowing developers to use the best tool for the
job.
- Have a uniform approach to writing server side code: By
removing platform specific nuances and the need to learn different
platforms and focusing on functionality it’s easier for developers
to ship better code.
- Move applications as technology needs change: As
application needs evolve and change over time there is no need for
massive re-writes and adding or switching vendors.
"Vercel enables frontend developers to build agile Web
experiences at the Edge,” said Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel. “We
are committed to investing in Edge-first frameworks, like Next.js
and SvelteKit, while creating and supporting the foundational
standards of open-source software. Joining the Web-interoperable
Runtimes Community Group will help us further our goal of building
a flexible and open Web for all."
For more information about the Web-interoperable Runtimes
Community Group, check out the resource below:
- Cloudflare Blog: Introducing the WinterCG
- Cloudflare Blog: Open Sourcing the Cloudflare Workers
Runtime
- Overview: Platform Week
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