Edge Functions - What Are the Side Effects?

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The idea with edge functions is that they run all or the one i've seen, they all run in javascript. The downside to that is that you can't do literally every possible thing that you want. You just have access to a certain amount of apiasn what a pis areo. We'll talk about what theyare used for, an examples in injes a second as well. All right, next we did the upsides here. What are some downsides of edge functions? Why aren't we running everything in the edge all the time? Yes.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what edge functions are, the upsides and downsides of edge functions, and what they’re used for.

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