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Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by xd1936 »

barnabask wrote: post #30

I understand the need for launching with GitHub integration only, really. It's probably 2020 table stakes for launching a hosting platform, ticking the "up and running in 5 minutes" requirement checkbox. (See also: Digital Ocean's recently launched App Platform, same situation.) But many of us walked away from GitHub and embraced GitLab in the last few years, probably a big wave in 2018. As far as I can tell, there's…

It's disappointing that Github doesn't have repository mirroring, like many competitors do. I suppose that would encourage people to leave their walled garden but still take advantage of their features.

Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by tln »

bamboleo wrote: post #8
samjmck wrote: post #2

Seems very similar to Netlify, which is a good thing. Commits get their own preview URLs and branches get their own dedicated alias. Had a quick look at their pricing as well and the main difference is the Cloudflare free plan is limited to 500 builds per month as opposed to Netlify's 300 build _minutes_ per month and that Cloudflare offer unlimited bandwidth instead of 100GB per month. I am excited to start using th…

It’s a bad day for Netlify. I had issues with them before and I’m already fronting some sites with CloudFlare, so… I guess I know what I’m doing next week.

I've had the same number of issues over the last few years with Netlify and Cloudflare. With Netlify I was able to rehost easily, with Cloudflare, I was screwed because they were the DNS provider as well and changing nameservers is slow

Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by abbaselmas »

talawahtech wrote: post #19

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 movin…

I was also planning to publish new blog with minimal template. Here is one https://lumen.netlify.app/ with gatsby This has 100 performance on lighthouse tests and also pwa implemented.

Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by string »

Always pleased to see more alternatives to Netlify/Vercel. I love how easy Netlify makes it to deploy things, but I don't really understand their pricing.

I recently built a pretty basic static webapp that would have racked up around £100 in bandwidth charges (~0.5TB) in the first 24 hours on Netlify. I stuck it on BunnyCDN instead after I realised this and it ended up costing around £3. The five or so minutes I save manually running and uploading the build each time is not worth many hundreds of pounds a month.

Netlify's bandwidth charges seem excessive, but then Vercel and DO App Platform are comparable, so maybe I'm missing something. I guess CDN companies have an advantage here. I'd be happy to pay Netlify money for all the sites I host that don't use a lot of bandwidth, but they insist in hosting them for free.

Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by rita3ko »

ryan29 wrote: post #35
gazelleeatslion wrote: post #15

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 Obj…

I think it would be extremely useful to have some type of simple authentication system for the preview URLs. I think the One-Time Pin Login [1] available with Cloudflare Access would be a really great fit if I could drive it from a list of email addresses in the GitHub repo. As a use case, consider a small project where someone is looking for very preliminary feedback and wants to ask friends, family, trusted colleag…

You're just one step ahead of us :)

We'll be working on building in one-click configuration to have Cloudflare Access in front of your preview deployments specifically for this purpose.

More good news: we support private repos today :)

Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by wolco2 »

no_wizard wrote: post #20

I was wondering when this was going to happen! This is a legitimate contender here against Gatsby, Netlify, AWS Amplify and the like One thing I like about this over all the others is they aren’t (to my knowledge) just reselling AWS features with added convenience (not that this is an issue or bad, but this a lot of what Netlify does with their lamdas for instance, if I recall correctly) and their CDN is top notch IM…

Don't let a lack of a job posting stop you, I would find someone on twitter and reach out.

Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by talawahtech »

abbaselmas wrote: post #45
talawahtech wrote: post #19

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 movin…

I was also planning to publish new blog with minimal template. Here is one https://lumen.netlify.app/ with gatsby This has 100 performance on lighthouse tests and also pwa implemented.

Thx, I'll check it out!

Re: Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

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Post by jshier »

rita3ko wrote: post #38
jshier wrote: post #36

What if I already have static HTML and just need a host? No builds (I do them locally), no frameworks, just an HTML structure. I'd love to just be able to point to a git repo and have the site published through Cloudflare, since it already sits in front of my site anyway.

Hi there, I'm the PM working on Cloudflare Pages. We don't have support for this now since we're still in beta, so not everything is there yet, but it's certainly a use case we intend to support. You'll just be able to specify no build step. :)

That's what I figured, thanks.
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