[l5870uoo9y]

Cloudflare Workers has really improved lately, e.g. "Observations" and "Metrics", and on top of that their product suite keeps growing all the time. If you use Astro[1] together with Cloudflare then you have a solution that is at least on par with NextJS and Vercel, but that only costs a fraction. My latest project[2] also uses Astro and Cloudflare and it is rendered on the "edge" (i.e. SSR) in about 100ms – you won't get better performance.

[1]: https://astro.build

[2]: https://www.viewdiff.ai

[davedx]

Yeah it's great for toy/hobby projects with little complexity or features, but as often is the case with these kinds of platforms, running a substantial app on them is a different proposition

[h33t-l4x0r]

I tried to port a nextjs project to cf + astro recently and it was a nightmare of usability and build issues. I'm sure they will work it out eventually but I won't be trying it again any time soon.

[l5870uoo9y]

While Cloudflare is long-established, the Workers platform is relatively new and did have the issues you described; however, over the past few months it has become stable. Compared to Vercel, it is more technical and advanced.

[h33t-l4x0r]

I like Workers in general and I've had good experience with it. Here I'm talking about deploying Astro to Pages though, which is not nearly as polished as deploying Nextjs on Vercel.

[pjmlp]

Until they allow to deploy native code for serverless, they aren't on pair with Vercel.