🔥 Miniflare

Miniflare is a simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers.

• 🎉 Fun: develop workers easily with detailed logging, file watching and pretty error pages supporting source maps.
• 🔋 Full-featured: supports most Workers features, including KV, Durable Objects, WebSockets, modules and more.
• ⚡ Fully-local: test and develop Workers without an internet connection. Reload code on change quickly.

It's an alternative to wrangler dev, written in TypeScript, that runs your workers in a sandbox implementing Workers' runtime APIs.

See https://miniflare.dev for more detailed documentation.

Features

• 📨 Fetch Events (with HTTP(S) server and manual dispatch)
• ⏰ Scheduled Events (with cron triggering and manual dispatch)
• 🔑 Variables and Secrets with .env Files
• 📚 Modules Support
• 📈 Analytics Engine (with optional persistence)
• 📦 KV (with optional persistence)
• 🪣 R2 (with optional persistence)
• ✨ Cache (with optional persistence)
• 📌 Durable Objects (with optional persistence)
• 🌐 Workers Sites
• ✉️ WebSockets
• 🛠 Custom & Wrangler Builds Support
• ⚙️ WebAssembly Support
• 🗺 Source Map Support
• 🕸 Web Standards: Base64, Timers, Fetch, Encoding, URL, Streams, Crypto
• 📄 HTMLRewriter
• ⚡️ Live Reload on File Changes
• 📅 Compatibility Dates/Flags Support
• 🔌 Multiple Workers Support
• 🤹 Custom Jest Environment (with isolated per-test storage)
• 💪 Written in TypeScript

Install

Miniflare is installed using npm:

$ npm install -g miniflare # either globally..
$ npm install -D miniflare # ...or as a dev dependency

Using the CLI

$ miniflare worker.js --watch --debug
[mf:dbg] Options:
[mf:dbg] - Scripts: worker.js
[mf:dbg] Reloading worker.js...
[mf:inf] Worker reloaded! (97B)
[mf:dbg] Watching .env, package.json, worker.js, wrangler.toml...
[mf:inf] Listening on :8787
[mf:inf] - http://127.0.0.1:8787

Using the API

import { Miniflare } from "miniflare";

const mf = new Miniflare({
  script: `
  addEventListener("fetch", (event) => {
    event.respondWith(new Response("Hello Miniflare!"));
  });
  `,
});
const res = await mf.dispatchFetch("http://localhost:8787/");
console.log(await res.text()); // Hello Miniflare!

CLI Reference

Usage: miniflare [script] [options]

Core Options:
 -h, --help              Show help                                                   [boolean]
 -v, --version           Show version number                                         [boolean]
 -c, --wrangler-config   Path to wrangler.toml                                        [string]
     --wrangler-env      Environment in wrangler.toml to use                          [string]
     --package           Path to package.json                                         [string]
 -m, --modules           Enable modules                                              [boolean]
     --modules-rule      Modules import rule                                 [array:TYPE=GLOB]
     --compat-date       Opt into backwards-incompatible changes from                 [string]
     --compat-flag       Control specific backwards-incompatible changes               [array]
     --usage-model       Usage model (bundled by default)                             [string]
 -u, --upstream          URL of upstream origin                                       [string]
 -w, --watch             Watch files for changes                                     [boolean]
 -d, --debug             Enable debug logging                                        [boolean]
 -V, --verbose           Enable verbose logging                                      [boolean]
     --(no-)update-check Enable update checker (enabled by default)                  [boolean]
     --repl              Enable interactive REPL                                     [boolean]
     --root              Path to resolve files relative to                            [string]
     --mount             Mount additional named workers                [array:NAME=PATH[@ENV]]
     --name              Name of service                                              [string]
     --route             Route to respond with this worker on                          [array]
     --global-async-io   Allow async I/O outside handlers                            [boolean]
     --global-timers     Allow setting timers outside handlers                       [boolean]
     --global-random     Allow secure random generation outside handlers             [boolean]
     --actual-time       Always return correct time from Date methods                [boolean]
     --inaccurate-cpu    Log inaccurate CPU time measurements                        [boolean]

HTTP Options:
 -H, --host              Host for HTTP(S) server to listen on                         [string]
 -p, --port              Port for HTTP(S) server to listen on                         [number]
 -O, --open              Automatically open browser to URL                    [boolean/string]
     --https             Enable self-signed HTTPS (with optional cert path)   [boolean/string]
     --https-key         Path to PEM SSL key                                          [string]
     --https-cert        Path to PEM SSL cert chain                                   [string]
     --https-ca          Path to SSL trusted CA certs                                 [string]
     --https-pfx         Path to PFX/PKCS12 SSL key/cert chain                        [string]
     --https-passphrase  Passphrase to decrypt SSL files                              [string]
     --(no-)cf-fetch     Path for cached Request cf object from Cloudflare    [boolean/string]
     --live-reload       Reload HTML pages whenever worker is reloaded               [boolean]

Scheduler Options:
 -t, --cron              CRON expression for triggering scheduled events               [array]

Build Options:
 -B, --build-command     Command to build project                                     [string]
     --build-base-path   Working directory for build command                          [string]
     --build-watch-path  Directory to watch for rebuilding on changes                  [array]

Analytics Engine Options:
 -a, --ae                Analytics Engine to bind                         [array:NAME=DATASET]
     --ae-persist        Persist Analytics Engine data (to optional path)     [boolean/string]

KV Options:
 -k, --kv                KV namespace to bind                                          [array]
     --kv-persist        Persist KV data (to optional path)                   [boolean/string]

R2 Options:
 -r, --r2                R2 bucket to bind                                             [array]
     --r2-persist        Persist R2 data (to optional path)                   [boolean/string]

Durable Objects Options:
 -o, --do                Durable Object to bind                     [array:NAME=CLASS[@MOUNT]]
     --do-persist        Persist Durable Object data (to optional path)       [boolean/string]
     --(no-)do-alarms    Enable Durable Object alarms (enabled by default)           [boolean]

Cache Options:
     --(no-)cache        Enable default/named caches (enabled by default)            [boolean]
     --cache-persist     Persist cached data (to optional path)               [boolean/string]

Sites Options:
 -s, --site              Path to serve Workers Site files from                        [string]
     --site-include      Glob pattern of site files to serve                           [array]
     --site-exclude      Glob pattern of site files not to serve                       [array]

Bindings Options:
 -e, --env               Path to .env file                                            [string]
 -b, --binding           Binds variable/secret to environment                [array:KEY=VALUE]
     --global            Binds variable/secret to global scope               [array:KEY=VALUE]
     --wasm              WASM module to bind                                 [array:NAME=PATH]
     --text-blob         Text blob to bind                                   [array:NAME=PATH]
     --data-blob         Data blob to bind                                   [array:NAME=PATH]
 -S, --service           Mounted service to bind                      [array:NAME=MOUNT[@ENV]]

Acknowledgements

Miniflare was created by Brendan Coll.

Many thanks to dollarshaveclub/cloudworker and gja/cloudflare-worker-local for inspiration.

Durable Object's transactions are implemented using Optimistic Concurrency Control (OCC) as described in "On optimistic methods for concurrency control." ACM Transactions on Database Systems. Thanks to Alistair O'Brien for helping the Miniflare creator understand this.