Peter Pistorius and Aurora Scharff interview

Welcome back live stream Reacton 2025 day two. I'm here with Peter and Aurora. Peter and Aurora have not had their talk yet. They're going to do it a bit later today, but we thought we can talk a bit about the stuff they're going to show us and a bit about Redwood SDK. So, um you've recently announced Redwood SDK 1.0 beta, right? >> Yes. >> Can you tell us about it and what's the difference uh to other React frameworks? So Redwood SDK is built exclusively for Cloudflare. >> Oh.

>> So it only runs on Cloudflare. >> Yeah. >> And it's completely server side. So we leaned in heavily to the request response model. So web browser sends a request, you return a response. We believe that that's a really good way to uh bring RSC's to people um and and just make things much simpler. >> Mhm. Yeah. and uh cloudflare particular reason why we decided to go with that. >> Yeah, it's part of actually the reason why we decided to build a new framework

was I come from South Africa. >> Oh, >> in South Africa we're you know pretty much really far from everyone else. So latency is a huge issue. >> Um and when I was build when I decided to build a new framework, I didn't want people to have to think about storage cues, databases, etc. So I knew I needed a platform. >> Yeah. Um, so I went and I looked around and I found a whole bunch of competitive platforms. >> Uh, and Cloudflare had two things that were incredibly special. Number one was

they have a great ed edge network. >> Number two is that you don't need a credit card in order to ship anything to Cloudflare, >> right? >> And being someone that is from South Africa, that's really important to a country that is developing. >> There are plenty of young people out there that don't have access to a bank, let alone a credit card. and having the ability to ship to that platform and get things out the door is really important to us. >> Yeah, that's awesome. I I haven't even considered that. That's a great reason. Thank you.

>> Starting for free. That's pretty awesome. Uh now, Aurora, you're going to talk to us a bit later today about your experience with Redwood SDK. Can you share more about that? >> Yeah, so I mean I come from a lot of experience with Nex.js and server components and a lot of the new React features. Uh so I've been trying out Redwood SDK and seeing how that knowledge uh su uh like fits in the whole Redwood SDK model and it's very interesting and I'm I'm liking it a lot. It's a nice alternative to to the existing frameworks for sure depending

on what what you care about in a framework. >> Yeah. Do you feel like uh your experience with those previous things helped you or was it different? >> It's Yeah. So it's very similar for me. Uh the mental model is like you can reuse all of the concepts that you already learned with server components and react and it's just it just kind of works in an expected way in Redwood SDK. So I'm like very happy that I can reuse all of my knowledge because I know a lot about server components and and React. >> Cool. Uh Aurora, what's your favorite

React feature of all times? Well um >> my name has been like I have this nickname RSC Queen. People have called me that. So, I do really like server components though. I think they're great. I know a lot of people are like, "How do you how do you like server components?" Yeah, I like them. I think they're great. Makes my life easy. >> You're the first one from everyone interviewed today that said that. By the way, >> I do think they're great. However, >> I think they're great, too. But they they need to integrate with all of the

other features for them to be to be good to work with, right? So I think that's an important consideration. >> Definitely. Uh Peter, can you uh mind sharing some of the core values that guided the design of Redwood SDK? >> Uh yeah. So I originally mentioned that part of the things that we wanted was for it to be fast in in in anywhere on Earth, for it to be basically free. >> Yeah. Uh and second, we did not want to generate any magic. So what I mean by