Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

I’d love to see a version of this (or Netlify, Vercel, etc) that didn’t bundle CI with the preview and deploy steps so that I can pick my own CI and then effectively use the “CDN” as the highly qualified host of my static assets.

Yes.

Other exciting news from article:

> Over the coming months, we’ll be working on integrating Workers and Pages into a seamless experience. It’ll work the exact same way Pages does: just write your code, git push, and we’ll deploy it for you. The only difference is, it won’t just be your frontend, it’ll be your backend, too. And just to be clear: this is not just for stateless functions. With Workers KV and Durable Objects, we see a huge opportunity to really enable any web application to be built on this platform

Also:

> With Cloudflare Pages, each commit gets its own unique URL. Preview URLs make it easier to get meaningful code reviews without the overhead of pulling down the branch.

> each feature branch will have its own dedicated consistent alias, allowing you to have a consistent URL for the latest changes.

Yes, you can...the feature people have been using, which existed before Cloudflare pages is "Workers Sites". https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/sites

Perfect timing, I was planning on launching a new personal blog next week. Was gonna use GitHub Pages fronted by Cloudflare but this is even better since it has preview and password capabilities.

If anybody from Cloudflare is listening I would love to get on the beta asap. Would also be great if you had some ready to go simple, clean blogging templates :)

I'm generally impressed with the direction Cloudflare is moving, they have some really powerful and innovative infrastructure primitives (workers, durable objects) and a killer network. Going to be interesting to see how they take advantage of that as they build out higher level offerings.

By the way, if anybody has recommendations for simple, clean, modern looking blog template (something like medium) that they have actually used, I am all ears. So far I have found theses two:

- https://github.com/jekyll/minima

- https://github.com/wowthemesnet/mediumish-theme-jekyll/

Minima is a little too minimal and mediumish seems a little muchish, but I don't want to spend too much time searching for the perfect theme so unless something else lands at my feet I probably just pick one and start writing.