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May 14th, 2025 × #react#cloudflare#frameworks

Fullstack Cloudflare with React and Vite (Redwood SDK)

Peter Pistorius discusses Redwood SDK, a new React framework he created that runs on Cloudflare and focuses on performance, realtime capabilities, and simplicity.

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Wes talks with Peter Pistorius about RedwoodSDK, a new React framework built natively for Cloudflare. They dive into real-time React, server components, zero-cost infrastructure, and why RedwoodSDK empowers developers to ship faster with fewer tradeoffs and more control.

Show Notes

  • 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
  • 00:52 What is RedwoodSDK?
  • 04:49 Choosing openness over abstraction
  • 08:46 More setup, more control
  • 12:20 Why RedwoodSDK only runs on Cloudflare
  • 14:25 What the database setup looks like
  • 16:15 Durable Objects explained
    Ep 879: Fullstack Cloudflare
  • 18:14 Middleware and request flow
  • 23:14 No built-in client-side router?
  • 24:07 Integrating routers with defineApp
  • 26:04 React Server Components and real-time updates
  • 29:53 What happened to RedwoodJS?
  • 31:14 Why do opinionated frameworks struggle to catch on?
  • 34:35 The problem with Lambdas
  • 36:16 Cloudflare’s JavaScript runtime compatibility
  • 40:04 Brought to you by Sentry.io
  • 41:44 The vision behind RedwoodSDK

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