Pages isn’t going anywhere - but if you’re starting something new, use Assets if you want to play wi

Pages isn’t going anywhere - but if you’re starting something new, use Assets if you want to play with anything new Cloudflare is releasing. I’d be very surprised if any new bindings get added to Pages at this point.

JJames Pages isn’t going anywhere - but if you’re starting something new, use Assets if...

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:00 PM

This effectively confirms that we have to re-tool.

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:01 PM

I eagerly anticipate the migration guide. Our project is DOA without it. We have to find a platform asap.

JamesOP•3/12/25, 1:01 PM

If what you have today works, you don’t need to. But if you’re looking to use anything new that Cloudflare releases in future, then Pages is not a good choice today sadly.

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:02 PM

We put months of work into Pages. It's not future proof anymore, you just confirmed. We cannot launch on it.

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:03 PM

Our project is DOA today. We must find a new and more stable platform. It will be Workers if we can figure it out. But if we have to rebuild, well, that is a cost and we will look for stability.

JamesOP•3/12/25, 1:03 PM

Sorry, that’s the reality of Pages today. It’s stable and highly functional with the features it has. But it has already been lagging behind Workers and I don’t anticipate that changing.

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:04 PM

No, that's fine, it's true. I lamented using Pages to start. I didn't want to, but it was the direction we were pushed in, by Cloudflare's documentation.

JamesOP•3/12/25, 1:05 PM

Fwiw moving to Assets should be relatively straightforward. Functions aren’t a thing (which imo is a good move, they were always a weird Pages only thing), but static assets, _headers, _redirects etc. all exist now.

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:07 PM

It's weird. There's some build configuration issue. You can replicate it easily. Create a new project on Pages using Astro. set it up so that it builds on push to Github. Then, use that repository as a Workers Assets project. There is no way you can configure it, that I have found in code or admin, that will build.

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:08 PM

Surely there is a way, I just haven't found it

JamesOP•3/12/25, 1:08 PM

I don’t believe the Astro Cloudflare Pages adapter will work on Assets, but there’s an Astro adapter for Assets I believe

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:08 PM

Oof. But! You can create a new Workers Assets project in the CF Admin, and push that to github, and then it will automagically build an Astro site every time you push to Github, just like with a Pages project.

JamesOP•3/12/25, 1:09 PM

Try this: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/frameworks/framework-guides/astro/

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:09 PM

Yes, that is the guide I am referencing

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:10 PM

That is how you get a fresh working Workers Assets Astro build, yes. That is good. How do you make a Pages Astro site do that?

JJames I don’t believe the Astro Cloudflare Pages adapter will work on Assets, but ther...

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 1:21 PM

So this is insightful, thank you. I'm a little at a loss as I seek to understand which adapter that is for Assets versus the common adapter for Pages. I think this could be key to making this work, however, and I'd be happy to contribute back to the guide if we can make this work somehow.

xPaw•3/12/25, 1:34 PM

Is the workers/snippets cache shared with the main cf http caches, or are they keyed differently internally?

steyblind•3/12/25, 2:28 PM

How are folks here leveraging preview + production builds as 'staging' envs? Is that realistic? bonus: different env vars for preview vs production workers deployments?

RRobbBoss So this is insightful, thank you. I'm a little at a loss as I seek to understand...

Silvan•3/12/25, 3:22 PM

im surprised by your experience. i moved a sveltekit project from pages to assets with less than 10 lines of code

Silvan•3/12/25, 3:23 PM

but yea the adapter naming is a bit weird now. for worker assets on sveltekit you still use the pages adapter. not the worker one

Ssteyblind How are folks here leveraging preview + production builds as 'staging' envs? Is ...

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 3:24 PM

Yeah that's pretty much what I'm doing. Env vars for environments

SSilvan but yea the adapter naming is a bit weird now. for worker assets on sveltekit yo...

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 3:25 PM

Wild. I bet it's similar for Astro. I just can't find the worker adapter that's special. I might be special, too

RRobbBoss Wild. I bet it's similar for Astro. I just can't find the worker adapter that's ...

Silvan•3/12/25, 3:25 PM

well in my case i created a brand new project using worker assets and just compared it to my pages project

SSilvan well in my case i created a brand new project using worker assets and just compa...

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 3:26 PM

Right, yeah, that's pretty much been my workflow, too.

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 3:26 PM

It's currently how I'm troubleshooting anyhow

Silvan•3/12/25, 3:26 PM

i really didnt need to change anything other than addming a wrangler file and on the dash add a npm run build on the build step

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 3:29 PM

Hrm. Yeah, the weird thing is that when I make everything match between the working Assets and the migrated one, I still can't build the formerly Pages project on Assets. Nothing works. And this is true if I do it from scratch and try to migrate, too.

Silvan•3/12/25, 3:30 PM

let me give it a try

Zire•3/12/25, 3:57 PM

Quick question for all, is there any good documentation on how to setup authentication for a pages site, I want to create an admin dashboard using a subdomain to handle some things and want it to be authenticated through google account, no idea how to get started on this I assume some use of functions

ZZire Quick question for all, is there any good documentation on how to setup authenti...

Silvan•3/12/25, 3:58 PM

check out better-auth. works on cf with d1

Zire•3/12/25, 3:59 PM

Is it possible to use kv instead of d1?

Silvan•3/12/25, 4:00 PM

probably not

Chaika•3/12/25, 4:06 PM

KVs not really built for that sort of use, with eventual consistency and caching

Zire•3/12/25, 4:06 PM

I saw something about cloudflare access as a no code solution, has anyone tried this?

Silvan•3/12/25, 4:59 PM

maybe a bit biased place to ask but has anyone read the cloudflare infra book there is? i will likely build a lot more backend things soon and im very tempted

Silvan•3/12/25, 5:00 PM

i wish the physical book wasnt 3x the ebook here

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Silvan•3/12/25, 5:07 PM

well it got published in like November last year so would be weird if you did

Evorage•3/12/25, 5:32 PM

My pages deployment just failed and I don't know why

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/deployment-of-fails-with-no-log/578381/4 is there anyone on the team willing to have a look at the logs for me please?

Evorage•3/12/25, 5:32 PM

I shouldn't be over the size limit

SSilvan maybe a bit biased place to ask but has anyone read the cloudflare infra book th...

Ashley•3/12/25, 5:52 PM

https://pragprog.com/titles/apapps/serverless-apps-on-cloudflare/ this one? I hear it’s quite good

(and yes I am the author, so a little bit of a shameless plug - reviews are incredibly positive though on Goodreads + general feedback I’ve heard, and happy to hear any feedback you have if you pick it up!)

Serverless Apps on Cloudflare

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Red•3/12/25, 6:42 PM

o/
Anyone here doing preview environments with separate d1 databases?
I'm experimenting with creating and dropping d1 databases for each github PR created/closed on our base repo, and I wanted to know if there is a blog post or anyone doing the same thing ^^

AAshley https://pragprog.com/titles/apapps/serverless-apps-on-cloudflare/ this one? I he...

RobbBoss•3/12/25, 7:03 PM

Now you've heard of it @Leo

Looks pretty useful and relevant. Thank you for the link @Ashley

Silvan•3/12/25, 7:33 PM

small question regarding the storage api. is it possible to somehow type keys?

import { DurableObject } from "cloudflare:workers";

export class Counter extends DurableObject<Env> {
  async getCounterValue() {
    const value: number = (await this.ctx.storage.get("value")) || 0;
    return value;
  }
}

import { DurableObject } from "cloudflare:workers";

export class Counter extends DurableObject<Env> {
  async getCounterValue() {
    const value: number = (await this.ctx.storage.get("value")) || 0;
    return value;
  }
}

instead of needing to say value: number or well get<number>

sumit•3/12/25, 10:20 PM

which framework behaves the best on cloudflare pages currently?

top 3 choices please

JJames Fwiw I would still encourage folks to use Assets wherever possible over Pages. C...

sumit•3/12/25, 10:24 PM

oh i wasn't aware of this - pages is being deprecated?

last i used it 2 years ago and my experience with pages with next.js wasn't great (due to not next.js not behaving well with pages)

sumit•3/12/25, 10:24 PM

now im confused - what's the stable alternative to pages?

Ssumit oh i wasn't aware of this - pages is being deprecated? last i used it 2 years ...

Silvan•3/12/25, 10:26 PM

worker assets

Ssumit which framework behaves the best on cloudflare pages currently? top 3 choices p...

Silvan•3/12/25, 10:26 PM

realistically anything non nextjs

SSilvan realistically anything non nextjs

sumit•3/12/25, 10:27 PM

best behaving framework for it?

Silvan•3/12/25, 10:27 PM

i dont think that exists choose your favourite

import { DurableObject } from "cloudflare:workers"; export class Counter extends DurableObject<Env> { async getCounterValue() { const value: number = (await this.ctx.storage.get("value")) || 0; return value; } }

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