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by zoul 59 days ago
Very nice developer experience. A lot of batteries included, like CDN, incremental page regeneration, image pipeline or observability. Not having to maintain a server.

I’m still planning to move elsewhere though, the vendor lock-in is not worth it and I’d like to keep our infra in the EU.
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tucnak 59 days ago
All of this is available in Cloudflare $5 plan?
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fontain 59 days ago
Cloudflare’s developer experience doesn’t come close, it is terrible. Cloudflare are working on it, and hopefully they’ll be a real competitor to Vercel on ease of use someday, but right now, it is painful when compared to Vercel. Cloudflare is infrastructure first, Vercel is developer experience first.
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Onavo 59 days ago
Yes, CloudFlare's full of bugs and sharp edges. Not to mention the atrocious 3MB worker size limit (especially egregious in the age of ML models). They don't mention this up front in the docs and the moment you try to deploy anything non trivial it's oops time to completely re architect your app.
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kentonv 59 days ago
> Not to mention the atrocious 3MB worker size limit

That's for the free plan.

Limits are documented here:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/#w...

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Onavo 59 days ago
Well it's so far from Vercel that it's not even funny any more.

Good work on workers though, maybe the next generation of sandstorm will be built on CloudFlare in a decade or so after all the bugs have been hammered out.

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rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 59 days ago
In my experience it severely lacks on developer experience, compared to Vercel.
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dandaka 59 days ago
Every three months I'm trying to deploy to Cloudflare from Monorepo and I hadn't have success yet. While Vercel works every time from the box. Maybe I could dig deeper and try to understand how it works, but I'm super lazy to do that.
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jjgoi 55 days ago
Same here, deploying a Next.js app just works right out of the box with Vercel.

I've had so much trouble with Cloudflare, turns out you've to configure your deploy commands to use opennextjs-cloudflare. Vercel DX is much better for sure, and Cloudflare isn't even close. (I'm not even an engineer btw, so needed some time to figure out.)

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