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RedwoodSDK

What is RedwoodSDK?

RedwoodSDK gives you a complete set of composable tools to handle the request/response lifecycle of webapps.

At its core, it’s just a Vite plugin that seamlessly enables SSR, React Server Components, React Server Functions, and real-time.

It’s also a standards-compliant HTTP server with middleware, route handling, and interruptors—giving you full control over every request.

All of it runs on the Cloudflare Development Platform, with seamless access to compute (Workers/ Durable Objects), database (D1), storage (R2), queues, and AI.

Quick start

Terminal window
npx degit redwoodjs/sdk/starters/standard#main <project-name>

Then continue with “start developing”

Design Philosophy

We believe that the best way to build webapps is to be standards-compliant, to adhere to the request/response paradigm, and to be transparent and composable.

Standards compliant:

We’ve removed the pain of abstracting away the underlying platform, and instead embraced it. The browser is the primary focus, with the request/response cycle as the foundation.

Request/Response as the foundation

Fetch is the primary way to interact with the web. The Request and Response objects are the foundation of the request/response paradigm. By focusing on these objects, you’ll able to seamlessly integrate with the web, streaming responses to the browser, and even build real-time applications.

Transparent and composable:

You are able to follow the flow from request to response, and to understand, and mofify, how each step is handled.

  • No hidden files
  • No magic imports / exports
  • No magic components
  • No magic types
  • No magic anything