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👷 workerd, Cloudflare's JavaScript/Wasm Runtime
workerd is a JavaScript / Wasm server runtime based on the same code that powers
Cloudflare Workers.
See https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd for details.
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👷 workerd, Cloudflare's JavaScript/Wasm Runtime
The npm package workerd receives a total of 1,692,234 weekly downloads. As such, workerd popularity was classified as popular.
We found that workerd demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 06 Sep 2025
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