Maison-Retail-Management-International parks Mike's backend on Render after Cloudflare won't take it

A short hosting experiment ended where it started: the heavy lifting stays on a conventional Node host, with only the front end living on the edge.

infrastructure

The team briefly tried moving Mike's backend onto Cloudflare Workers, a serverless platform that runs code on Cloudflare's global edge network. It didn't work - Mike leans on a bundled document-processing engine to handle files, and that engine simply can't run in Workers' stripped-down environment. So the stub got torn back out.

The resolution: the backend now runs on Render, a more conventional cloud host that runs full Node applications, while the lighter front end stays on Cloudflare. Almost nothing new was added to the codebase here - the value is the answer to a question, not a feature. If you're sizing up where a document-heavy legal AI can actually be deployed, this fork has done the homework for you: edge-serverless is out, standard Node hosting is in.

So what Worth a glance for anyone weighing hosting options for a document-processing legal tool - the verdict on edge-serverless is already in.

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4 commits from Maison-Retail-Management-International/mike, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`afdb3d2b`	Point production frontend at mike-backend Workers URL.	Thomas GUILLEMAUD	2026-05-20	↗ GitHub
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
`68228ef0`	Add wrangler config and health Worker for mike-backend deploys.	Thomas GUILLEMAUD	2026-05-20	↗ GitHub
Cloudflare Workers Builds failed without wrangler.jsonc. This enables deploy and /health; full Express API still requires a Node host. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
`38d65172`	Remove Cloudflare Worker setup from backend; API runs on Render.	Thomas GUILLEMAUD	2026-05-20	↗ GitHub
Drop wrangler.jsonc, placeholder worker.ts, and wrangler devDependency. Backend remains Express + R2 (S3 API); frontend stays on Workers. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
`bf8d6a22`	Point production frontend API at Render backend URL.	Thomas GUILLEMAUD	2026-05-20	↗ GitHub
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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