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