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.
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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