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name: implement description: Scaffold Cloudflare Workers with Hono, Drizzle ORM, and TypeScript best practices. Use this skill when implementing new Workers, adding endpoints, or setting up database schemas.

Cloudflare Implementation Skill

Scaffold production-ready Cloudflare Workers following modern patterns with Hono, Drizzle ORM, and TypeScript.

Technology Stack

Project Structure

Copyworker/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts          # Hono app entry
│   ├── routes/           # Route handlers
│   │   ├── api.ts
│   │   └── health.ts
│   ├── middleware/       # Hono middleware
│   │   ├── auth.ts
│   │   └── errors.ts
│   ├── services/         # Business logic
│   │   └── users.ts
│   ├── db/               # Drizzle schema + queries
│   │   ├── schema.ts
│   │   └── queries.ts
│   └── types.ts          # Shared types
├── migrations/           # D1 migrations
│   └── 0001_initial.sql
├── wrangler.jsonc
├── drizzle.config.ts
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Quick Start Templates

Package.json

Copy{
  "name": "worker-name",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "wrangler dev",
    "deploy": "wrangler deploy",
    "db:generate": "drizzle-kit generate",
    "db:migrate": "wrangler d1 migrations apply DB",
    "db:migrate:local": "wrangler d1 migrations apply DB --local",
    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "hono": "^4.0.0",
    "@hono/zod-validator": "^0.2.0",
    "drizzle-orm": "^0.29.0",
    "zod": "^3.22.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@cloudflare/workers-types": "^4.20240000.0",
    "drizzle-kit": "^0.20.0",
    "typescript": "^5.3.0",
    "wrangler": "^3.0.0"
  }
}

TSConfig

Copy{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ES2022",
    "module": "ESNext",
    "moduleResolution": "bundler",
    "lib": ["ES2022"],
    "types": ["@cloudflare/workers-types"],
    "strict": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "noEmit": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    "isolatedModules": true,
    "jsx": "react-jsx",
    "jsxImportSource": "hono/jsx"
  },
  "include": ["src/**/*"],
  "exclude": ["node_modules"]
}

Best Practices Summary

D1 Queries

Copy// GOOD: Batch inserts
const BATCH_SIZE = 1000;
for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i += BATCH_SIZE) {
  await db.insert(table).values(items.slice(i, i + BATCH_SIZE));
}

// BAD: Per-row inserts (N statements = N x cost)
for (const item of items) {
  await db.insert(table).values(item);
}

Queue Safety

CRITICAL: Always configure DLQs and implement idempotency:

Copy{
  "queues": {
    "consumers": [{
      "queue": "events",
      "max_retries": 1,           // LOW retries
      "dead_letter_queue": "events-dlq"  // REQUIRED
    }]
  }
}

R2 Asset Caching

Always implement edge caching to avoid $0.36/M Class B costs:

Copy// Check cache first
const cached = await caches.default.match(cacheKey);
if (cached) return cached;

// Fetch from R2 and cache
const object = await bucket.get(key);
const response = new Response(object.body, {
  headers: { 'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=31536000' }
});
ctx.waitUntil(caches.default.put(cacheKey, response.clone()));

Commands

Copy# Generate migration from schema changes
npm run db:generate

# Apply migrations locally
npm run db:migrate:local

# Apply migrations to remote D1
npm run db:migrate

# Development
npm run dev

# Deploy
npm run deploy

Reference Files

For detailed implementation patterns, consult:

• references/hono-patterns.md - Hono entry point, routes, middleware, error handling, auth
• references/drizzle-patterns.md - Schema definitions, queries, migrations, batch patterns
• references/queue-safety.md - Idempotency, DLQ handlers, circuit breaker, retry budget
• references/r2-caching.md - CDN caching, upload headers, IA storage warnings
• references/observability.md - Axiom, Better Stack, OTel export patterns

Related Skills

• architect: Service selection, wrangler.toml generation
• loop-breaker: Recursion guards for Worker-to-Worker calls
• query-optimizer: D1 query optimization, N+1 detection
• patterns: Architecture patterns (service-bindings, circuit-breaker)