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Agreed, I wonder if it's poorly engineered and that 2 minutes is spent spinning up an Ubuntu VM on GCP

You can ask "Walshy" in the Cloudflare Developers Discord and he can give you access to a feature called "fast builds" it's in beta at the moment.

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I think it is because the container it spins up is a bit heavy. When you select a framework, it just sets a build command. It seems as though every framework and tool is installed in that build container.

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