Fullstack Cloudflare

Buenisimo, soy el primero, necesito un video de Syntax usando un stack completo de cloudflare 7w7

Been exploring cloudflare products a lot recently and I think they're really cool. Planning on switching to hono for my backend side projects so I can host on workers.

SQLlite is the shit by the way. Most underrated db of all time.

love cloudflare , specially when you build your own server , I m using cloudflare worker, hosting and for free plan it s just astonishing . keep the good work guys :)

The only thing I miss on CF is Managed Auth service.

Great video! As a long time Syntax viewer, Im very happy you got CJ on board, he's such a great addition to the team

Bullish on fullstack cloudflare! One correction - I said queues you could wait for 2 years. Turns out the limit is 365 days for sleeping, which is still nuts! 😆

Feels like a good intermediate between the absolute stupidity/insanity of AWS/GCP/Azure (ridiculous that you need to provision 14 other things just to start a VM instance) and the somehow magic behind things like Railway and Render.

But how can we make money with this technology in 2025?

It’s all fun and all until Cloudflare blocks your account 😂

Great episode guys.

I love cloudflare stack and I've worked a lot with it, but the problem is I can't find a single vacancy that would require it, it seems like the industry is completely unaware of it

Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks Wes and CJ, I'm building with hono and ran into issues trying to deploy to cloudflare yesterday, so this is heavan sent. I've been wanting to understand cloudflare more since they are also behind hono I believe.

I'm a fan of Cloudflare as well. I really love workers. I just deploy nextjs to pages and apis needed to workers separately. I want to try out D1 and R2. But couldn't figure out yet.

DID CJ STOPPED WRITING CODE!!

✅ Generous free tier
✅ Offers for common parts of an application (DB, Caching, KV, ...)
✅ "Cold-start free"
✅ Node compat

Cloudflare really checks a lot of boxes!

Trying to avoid vendor lock-in is a bit silly because you're always going to be dependent on the specific tools you use.

Amazing timing, I've been wanting to try out Durable Objects on a project. Cloudflare looks amazing!

I bought an external 4TB nvme SSD for my Mac and have it connected via a Thunderbolt 4 enclosure. I get 3100 MB/s read and write speeds. These speeds actually allow me to run my entire home folder off of that SSD with little to no difference in performance. The entire setup costed me WAY less than what Apple would have charged me for same amount of built-in storage. Totally recommend it for home setup where you don't need to carry around the enclosure. P.S. with Thunderbolt 5 enclosures you can even get speeds up to 7000 MB/s which is insane.

There was drama some time ago about CF's sales team being excessively aggressive towards a customer with demanding a 120k bill being paid, or-else the site would be shut down in 48h. Does this impact your opinion on them?

I wanna go full CLoudflare SOOO MUCH, just give me a hosted postgrest and a simple solution to host boring Docker image for long running Node stuff.

D1 is strongly consistent. KV is the one with eventual consistency and can take up to a 60s in the worst cases of propagation (been there). If you want a strongly consistent KV like experience you should use the Durable Object storage which is strongly consistent (check the limits in value that can be stored per key)

Depending on your Synology model you can put a 10gbe card, working great here!

Problems with cf workers:
- Functions with pages have poor logs, you can only get real-time logs which doesn't help debugging.
- Workers itself doesn't support most Node packages, one in particular is mongodb drivers, hence anyone using mongodb is out of luck
- wrangler dev experience isnt great. You cant push a worker by itself without pushing your entire stack to github (this is for pages functions)
- You cant really test your worker along HMR on your dev environment, you always need to push your worker live and then test it out.. You could use wrangler pages dev ./dist but wrangler cant proxy your dev server and will use the build folder..

Ive been back and forth with workers, but moved back to lamdba functions.

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Nuxt has NuxHub, which is exactly "The Laravel for CloudFlare" using Vue.js 👌

I’ve ran into the issues with websockets and the OpenAI Real-time API. Otherwise, I’m a big fan.

This is probably the best AIO CF intro video! Thanks

I never understood workers until today, it felt like such a vague conept

That about the 120k Extortion scandal and the way Cloudflares "Trust and Safety Team" handled the case?
I think this should be addressed everytime then Cloudflare comes up, because you will be in complete vendor lock-in and completely dependant on how lenient and magnanimous they decide to be.

D1 is not replicated/distributed. They are working on that but the marketing is misleading.

You could build a serverless based nestjs app which would be portable.

workflows sounds like an implementation of the saga pattern.

Hi, I would love to see a complete cloudflare stack with hono here at Syntax, I am looking forward to creating something using r2, d1, workflows, hono, Aigatewa, etc.