Hono

When to Use

• Edge Computing: Explicitly designed for Cloudflare Workers / Edge runtimes.
• Performance: Uses

  RegExpRouter

  , making it significantly faster than Express.
• Single File API: Perfect for small microservices or proxy servers.

Quick Start

import { Hono } from "hono";
const app = new Hono();

app.get("/", (c) => c.text("Hello Hono!"));

app.get("/user/:name", (c) => {
  const name = c.req.param("name");
  return c.json({ message: `Hello ${name}!` });
});

export default app;

Core Concepts

Web Standards

Request

Response

Middleware

await next()

RPC (Hono RPC)

Best Practices (2025)

• Use Hono RPC: If you control both client and server, the typed client is amazing.
• Run on Bun: Hono + Bun is currently one of the fastest combinations for JS backends.

• Don't use heavy Node.js dependencies: If targeting Cloudflare Workers, avoid packages that rely on

  fs

  or native Node modules.

References

• Hono Documentation