CLOUDFLARE is expanding Wrangler into a cloud-wide CLI, with an early technical preview released publicly to let developers try commands that span multiple products. The post highlights Local Explorer, now in open beta for Wrangler and the Cloudflare Vite plugin, which lets developers inspect locally simulated resources such as KV, R2, D1, Durable Objects and Workflows, mirroring what’s available via the API and Dashboard.
A central aim is to keep local development in sync with production, using Miniflare to provide the same APIs locally and a local SQLite database for tests that run offline. The team describes a new TypeScript schema that defines API surfaces, CLI commands and context for generating interfaces and OpenAPI schemas, enabling consistent defaults and guardrails across local and remote resources.
You can try the technical preview today by running npx cf, or install it globally with npm install -g cf, as Cloudflare works toward a CLI for all of its products. This post dated 13 April 2026 outlines how the local and remote mirrors will be kept in sync as the CLI evolves, according to Cloudflare.