February Meetup - WordPress, Next.js and Cloudflare

Welcome to the EdinburghJS February Meetup! We will be meeting on Tuesday 17th February, 18:30 for light refreshments and talks at the Perk offices, Nova House, 3-5 Ponton Street.

Our talk this month is from Oleksandr Piekhota on WordPress, Next.js, and Cloudflare:

WordPress is still a solid content platform, and modern JavaScript frameworks are great at rendering UI - but problems start when content, frontend, and infrastructure are all tied together on the same server.

In this talk, I’ll walk through a production setup where WordPress is used purely as a GraphQL content API, a Next.js application consumes that API, and Cloudflare provides the edge layer for frontend delivery, caching, and scaling. The frontend runs on Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext, but the patterns apply to any framework that can run on Cloudflare’s edge platform.

We are using Luma as our ticketing system for this event. Please RSVP on Luma: https://luma.com/edinburghjs-feb-2026 - if you choose to RSVP on Meetup and share your email with us, then we will transfer your registration to the Luma system where you may get invites for future events.

Space is limited, so keep your RSVP status up to date if your plans change.

​We have a Discord server for people to share links, tips, jobs and JavaScript problems — join via the link on Scottish Technology Club. Feel free to join the #personal-websites channel and share your work in advance.

​Thank you to Perk for sponsoring this event, providing catering and the venue. Perk are recruiting

​Supporters tickets with an optional and flexible contribution amount are available on Luma so that you can contribute to the running costs of the group.

​If travel costs are a barrier to attending, please let us know — we have a diversity and hardship fund.