Building for the Edge
summary
Defines the edge as a limited JS runtime on CDN nodes (V8 isolates, 250+ locations) and shows Nuxt producing a Cloudflare Pages preset via Nitro that polyfills Node builtins with unenv, producing a ~1.8MB server output with <1MB JS. Demonstrates deploy with next hub that auto-creates R2 and bindings, live blob upload and server routes using Hub blob and Hub KV, SQL via Hub database, and reports median CPU render ~50ms for 75% of requests worldwide.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:42What is the Edge
- 1:40Worker
- 2:25Edge Computing
- 2:51Edge Run Time
- 4:09Optimized Output
- 7:41Preset
- 12:52Traditional Next
- 14:05API Routes
- 16:51Function Calls
- 18:11Storage
- 18:46Hub
- 20:32Demo
- 28:16Edge
- 29:35Speed
