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Improved support for running multiple Workers with `wrangler dev`

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You can run multiple Workers in a single dev command by passing multiple config files to wrangler dev:

wrangler dev --config ./web/wrangler.jsonc --config ./api/wrangler.jsonc

Previously, if you ran the command above and then also ran wrangler dev for a different Worker, the Workers running in separate wrangler dev sessions could not communicate with each other. This prevented you from being able to use Service Bindings ↗︎ and Tail Workers ↗︎ in local development, when running separate wrangler dev sessions.

Now, the following works as expected:

# Terminal 1: Run your application that includes both Web and API workers
wrangler dev --config ./web/wrangler.jsonc --config ./api/wrangler.jsonc

# Terminal 2: Run your auth worker separately
wrangler dev --config ./auth/wrangler.jsonc

These Workers can now communicate with each other across separate dev commands, regardless of your development setup.

./api/src/index.tsjs
export default {
	async fetch(request, env) {
		// This service binding call now works across dev commands
		const authorized = await env.AUTH.isAuthorized(request);

		if (!authorized) {
			return new Response("Unauthorized", { status: 401 });
		}

		return new Response("Hello from API Worker!", { status: 200 });
	},
};

Check out the Developing with multiple Workers guide to learn more about the different approaches and when to use each one.