Support Cloudflare Workers / Vercel Edge Functions

[kelbyfaessler]

Support Cloudflare Workers / Vercel Edge Functions

[johnomeara1]

This is definitely needed! With server-side-rendering systems like Nuxt or Next, people rely on edge functions to connect to elastic search.

^{Unrelated Complaint: I spent the last week building my Nuxt application using this library, only to find out when I deploy, nothing works because it doesn't have support for cloudflare workers. It was also a debugging nightmare because the error messages were cryptic. It took me around 3 hours to finally realize that this library does not support edge functions. Now, I have to rewrite everything using painful HTTP requests...}

[JoshMock]

Thanks for listing out all of those unsupported areas of the code, @kelbyfaessler. Super helpful when addressing requests like this.

At present, support for edge workers isn't on our short-term roadmap, but we have put some similar items on the list for consideration. Deno support came up in #1742, where the request is to decouple the client from core Node.js APIs.

As requests like this come in, our justification for prioritizing the work to do this will definitely grow.

ping @srikanthmanvi for visibility

[JoshMock]

@johnomeara1 Can you give some hints as to how this failed on Nuxt? Perhaps there's an opportunity to at least make the errors more useful until we can add edge support.