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Hono Has the Fastest Web Framework — Here's Why It's Replacing Express Everywhere

Hono Has the Fastest Web Framework — Here's Why It's Replacing Express Everywhere

via Dev.to JavaScriptAlex Spinov

Express is 14 years old. Hono is ultrafast, runs everywhere (Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node, AWS Lambda), and has zero dependencies. Why Hono? Ultrafast : Based on RegExpRouter, faster than Express/Fastify Multi-runtime : Same code runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js, AWS Lambda Zero dependencies : Tiny bundle size Type-safe : Full TypeScript with RPC-like client Quick Start bun create hono my-app cd my-app && bun install && bun run dev import { Hono } from " hono " ; const app = new Hono (); app . get ( " / " , ( c ) => c . text ( " Hello Hono! " )); app . get ( " /users/:id " , ( c ) => { const id = c . req . param ( " id " ); return c . json ({ id , name : " Alice " }); }); app . post ( " /users " , async ( c ) => { const body = await c . req . json (); return c . json ({ created : true , user : body }, 201 ); }); export default app ; Middleware import { Hono } from " hono " ; import { cors } from " hono/cors " ; import { logger } from " hono/logger " ; import { jwt

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