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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