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Hono Has a Free Web Framework That Runs on Every JavaScript Runtime

Hono Has a Free Web Framework That Runs on Every JavaScript Runtime

via Dev.to JavaScriptAlex Spinov

Express is tied to Node.js. Fastify is tied to Node.js. Hono runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js, AWS Lambda, and Vercel Edge — all with the same code. It's ultrafast, type-safe, and built for the edge. What Hono Gives You for Free Multi-runtime — same code runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js, Lambda Ultra-lightweight — 14KB core, tree-shakeable to ~3KB Type-safe routing — path params and query strings are typed Built-in middleware — CORS, JWT, rate limiting, compression, caching Zod validation — validate request bodies with @hono/zod-validator RPC client — type-safe API client generated from your routes JSX — server-side rendering without React Quick Start npm create hono@latest my-app Basic API import { Hono } from ' hono ' ; const app = new Hono (); app . get ( ' / ' , ( c ) => c . text ( ' Hello Hono! ' )); app . get ( ' /api/users/:id ' , ( c ) => { const id = c . req . param ( ' id ' ); // Typed! return c . json ({ id , name : ' Alice ' }); }); app . post (

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