IMO: Cloudflare Workers are far superior but there are basically no frameworks to really leverage the power of all that tech.
If you had a next.js app why on earth would you NOT use Vercel thinking long term.
For Cloudflare, yeah a static site, configure some sort of basic SSR demos, a million Cloudflare code samples, but there’s no REAL starting point for full blown application development beyond going custom.
Coolest I have seen is Flarereact.
Netflify on the hand offers very little beyond insanely easy to use and a ton of developer promotion.
Is it? At least for Vercel they have robust support for NextJS/server side rendering having made the framework; the closest thing in Cloudflare as far as I know is Flareact [1] which as far as I can tell still has a long way to go before it's really feature-comparable and as battle-tested as NextJS.
For hosting a simple static/create-react-app-style web app, there's an overwhelming number of options for that already.
Didn’t read this before commenting but you are exactly right.
There is NO good starting point for developers beyond snippets.
- Vercel as a framework they can modify around their platform
- Netlify is just easy to use and welcoming / friendly / not scary
- Cloudflare has code snippets... I expect this to change overtime as more migrate to Serverless but Cloudflare is like Serverless 2.0 (Durable Objects, runtime APIs) while everyone is building for 1.0 (quick cache clearing and server less functions).
Has been a couple years and still nothing I think.
The link on this post is cool to compete with Netlify and eat up all those small simple static sites but we developers really need a bit more of an ecosystem for app development (framework)
https://pages.cloudflare-docs.workers.dev/pages/migrations