Hono Middleware Has a Free API — Heres How to Build Lightning-Fast Edge APIs

Hono is an ultrafast web framework that runs everywhere — Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js, AWS Lambda. Its middleware system lets you compose powerful APIs in minutes. Why Hono? Ultra-fast : 3x faster than Express on benchmarks Multi-runtime : Same code on Workers, Deno, Bun, Node Type-safe : Full TypeScript with RPC client Tiny : Core is 14KB Rich middleware : CORS, JWT, rate limiting, OpenAPI built-in Quick Setup npm create hono@latest my-api cd my-api && npm run dev Basic API import { Hono } from ' hono ' ; const app = new Hono (); app . get ( ' /api/posts ' , async ( c ) => { const posts = await db . post . findMany (); return c . json ( posts ); }); app . post ( ' /api/posts ' , async ( c ) => { const body = await c . req . json (); const post = await db . post . create ({ data : body }); return c . json ( post , 201 ); }); export default app ; Built-in Middleware import { cors } from ' hono/cors ' ; import { jwt } from ' hono/jwt ' ; import { logger } from ' hono/logger '