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902: Fullstack Cloudflare with React and Vite (Redwood SDK)

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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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