Dashboard

Follow this guide to create a Workers AI application using the Cloudflare dashboard.

Prerequisites

Sign up for a Cloudflare account ↗ if you have not already.

Setup

To create a Workers AI application:

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the Workers & Pages page.

   Go to Compute (Workers)

2. Select Create application.

3. Under Select a template, select LLM Chat App.

4. Select Deploy.

5. Name your Worker, then select Create and deploy.

6. Preview your Worker at its provided workers.dev subdomain.

Development

Dashboard

Editing in the dashboard is helpful for simpler use cases.

Once you have created your Worker script, you can edit and deploy your Worker using the Cloudflare dashboard:

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the Workers & Pages page.

   Go to Compute (Workers)

2. Select your application.

3. Select Edit Code.

Wrangler CLI

To develop more advanced applications or implement tests, start working in the Wrangler CLI.

1. Install npm ↗.
2. Install Node.js ↗.

Node.js version manager

Use a Node version manager like Volta ↗ or nvm ↗ to avoid permission issues and change Node.js versions. Wrangler, discussed later in this guide, requires a Node version of 16.17.0 or later.

3. Run the following command, replacing the value of [<DIRECTORY>] which the location you want to put your Worker Script.

npm

npm create cloudflare@latest -- [<DIRECTORY>] --type=pre-existing

yarn

yarn create cloudflare [<DIRECTORY>] --type=pre-existing

pnpm

pnpm create cloudflare@latest [<DIRECTORY>] --type=pre-existing

After you run this command - and work through the prompts - your local changes will not automatically sync with dashboard. So, once you download your script, continue using the CLI.