Cloudflare Pages to Workers

Cloudflare documents a migration from Pages to Workers with static assets (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/static-assets/migration-guides/migrate-from-pages/). This skill is a checklist for that migration; it does not deploy. Before changing anything, read Cloudflare's current guide. If the cloudflare-docs plugin is enabled, its docs MCP also publishes a migration-guide tool next to the search tool.

1. Inspect

• wrangler.toml|json|jsonc with pages_build_output_dir, or a Pages project configured only in the dashboard (then there is no config file to convert; bindings and variables live in the dashboard and must be re-declared).
• A functions/ directory (Pages Functions), a built _worker.js, _routes.json, _headers, _redirects.
• package.json scripts that call wrangler pages dev or wrangler pages deploy.
• Inspect the installed cf version, framework adapter and Node22.18+ runtime. Preview a legacy conversion with cf migrate --dry-run; review its local edits and unresolved items. Do not create a new project over the old one.

2. Classify

• Assets only (no functions/, no _worker.js): the new config needs only name, compatibility_date and assets.directory.
• Assets plus code (a built _worker.js, or functions/): add main pointing to the Worker entry, and assets.binding (for example ASSETS) if the code serves assets itself.

3. Convert the config

Use cloudflare.config.ts and the current cf/config helpers. The Worker needs name and compatibilityDate; code also needs entrypoint. Preserve account, bindings/IDs, compatibility behavior and domains from the Pages project. Static assets follow the adapter's current documented output format. If code needs an ASSETS binding, declare bindings.assets() in worker.env. Review generated output with cf build and cf deploy --dry-run.

A built _worker.js must not become a public asset. Move it outside the assets directory or exclude it and _routes.json in .assetsignore:

_worker.js
_routes.json

Pages excluded node_modules, .DS_Store and .git automatically; Workers does not, so list them (**/node_modules, **/.DS_Store, **/.git) if they are inside the assets directory.

• _headers and _redirects placed in the assets directory are parsed by Workers and keep working for static asset responses, so do not ignore them. They are not applied to responses generated by Worker code; if the project has Pages Functions, _worker.js, or run_worker_first, headers and redirects for those responses must be set in code.
• If functions/ exists, the build must compile it. keep the framework's documented Functions build adapter and set the Worker entrypoint to its output. A legacy compatibility delegate may still be an adapter implementation detail; do not invent a cf Pages Functions build command or silently discard function routing.

4. Scripts

Before	After
wrangler pages dev <dir>	cf dev after reviewed migration
wrangler pages deploy <dir>	cf deploy (needs approval)

Framework commands (astro dev, next dev) stay as they are. If the framework has a Cloudflare adapter that supports Workers, use its documented setup.

5. Validate locally

1. Build with the project's command.
2. Run /cloudflare-preflight.
3. cf deploy --dry-run and read its output for the asset count, the entry file and bindings.
4. cf dev, then request the routes that the old site served, including a missing path, an SPA route if applicable, and one Function route.

6. Cutover is the user's call

Deployment, custom-domain changes and deleting the Pages project are account-level actions. Follow cloudflare-deploy: show the plan and wait for a yes. Things to tell the user before cutover:

• Preview deployments, branch aliases and the *.pages.dev hostname do not carry over automatically; Workers Builds and workers.dev work differently.
• Custom domains must be attached to the Worker, and that moves traffic.
• Keep the Pages project until the Worker is verified; do not delete it.

Done means

The config converts, a dry run succeeds, cf dev serves the expected routes, and the report lists what still needs the user (dashboard-only bindings, domains, cutover).

CLI migration: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cf/wrangler/migrate/.