Why Cloudflare, Netlify, and Webflow are collaborating to support Open Source tools like Astro and TanStack

Cloudflare is partnering with Netlify and Webflow to sponsor Astro and TanStack, two cornerstone open-source tools, in a bid to strengthen the open web. The collaboration aims to keep these projects resilient by ensuring they aren’t dependent on a single company, and to promote an open and sustainable ecosystem for developers.

The article notes that Cloudflare runs its own documentation site on Astro, highlighting its performance and framework-agnostic benefits, while TanStack Start is described as a full-stack framework aligning with Cloudflare’s edge computing model. “Cloudflare’s partnership and support affirms our shared mission: to make the web faster, more open, and better for everyone who builds on it,” according to Fred K.

Schott, Astro Co-creator, Project Steward, and Webflow’s role is framed as enabling open-source growth alongside Cloudflare and Netlify. It also mentions TanStack Start’s official release candidate for 1.0 and its suitability for deployment environments like Cloudflare Workers, underscoring the collaboration’s practical impact on production-ready tooling. The piece closes by inviting developers to explore getting started with Astro and TanStack Start and deploying applications to Cloudflare in minutes.