CloudFlare Workers - some functionality can only be performed while handling a request

Have you encountered this error when trying to upload a CloudFlare Pages function?

Error: Failed to publish your Function. Got error: Uncaught Error: Some functionality, such as asynchronous I/O, timeouts, and generating random values, can only be performed while handling a request.

I ran into it recently when tying to deploy what I thought should be a relatively simple function.

Directions to tell me that the issue was at worker.mjs:11:28 didn't really help me with where to find the issue in my TypeScript code.

Through a process of trial and elimination I ended up finding that it was down to how I was creating Response objects for my error cases.

const errorResponse =  new Response("Error message", {
    status: 400,
  });

I had this at the top level of a module I was importing.

Turns out this is not allowed. Instead I just need to create the responses during the execution of the function by turning the assignment statements in to anonymous factory functions.

const errorResponse = () => new Response("Error message", {
    status: 400,
  });

This keeps the code looking the way I want and CloudFlare is happy to deploy it to a worker.

In retrospect the error message makes sense, but without the context of having solved it I had a really hard time.

Comments

[abdellah ht]

Thanks, You saved me a lot of time!

[İren SALTALI]

Thanks, it really save tons of time here: github.com/irensaltali/serverlessa...