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When your serverless backend can't run PDF libraries (no headless Chrome, no native modules), generate the PDF in the browser instead. The server renders an HTML page with the data embedded, and client-side JavaScript builds and downloads the PDF. The user doesn't notice the difference.
Cloudflare Workers are serverless JavaScript functions that run at the edge — no server to manage, no container to configure. They wake up on each request, execute, and sleep. For small to medium web apps, they replace traditional backend servers entirely.
You can ship a production web app in a single day using technologies you've never touched before — if you choose technologies that have small API surfaces, skip the tutorials, and build the real thing from the start. The fastest way to learn a tool is to use it on a real problem, not to study it in...