Durable Objects are a new type of serverless compute platform from Cloudflare, and provide a way to run stateful applications in a serverless environm

Cloudflare Durable Objects

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Durable Objects are a new type of serverless compute platform from Cloudflare, and provide a way to run stateful applications in a serverless environment, without needing to manage infrastructure.

Each Durable Object can function as a WebSocket server, so it can co-ordinate messages between multiple clients. But importantly, it also has private, transactional and strongly consistent storage attached. Combined with a TinyBase Store on the client, and using the built-in synchronization and persistence functionality, this gives you an full-stack way to build complex, real-time, multi-device (and even collaborative) apps.

The quickest way to get started with TinyBase and Cloudflare Durable Objects is to use our Vite template. This includes both a client implementation (that by default connects to a demo server we provide) and a server implementation that you can instead use for your own Cloudflare installation.

This template uses a lightweight socket server on vite.tinybase.cloud to synchronize data between clients. This is fine for a demo but not intended as a production server for your apps!