Hono Has a Free API: The Ultrafast Web Framework for the Edge

#javascript #webdev #edge #cloudflare

Why Hono

Hono is a lightweight web framework built for edge runtimes — Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Vercel Edge, AWS Lambda. It runs everywhere with the same code and is blazing fast (~12K req/sec on Workers).

Install

npm create hono@latest my-app
cd my-app
npm install
npm run dev

Basic App

import { Hono } from 'hono';

const app = new Hono();

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

app.get('/api/users/:id', async (c) => {
  const id = c.req.param('id');
  const user = await getUser(id);
  return c.json(user);
});

app.post('/api/users', async (c) => {
  const body = await c.req.json();
  const user = await createUser(body);
  return c.json(user, 201);
});

export default app;

Middleware

import { Hono } from 'hono';
import { cors } from 'hono/cors';
import { logger } from 'hono/logger';
import { bearerAuth } from 'hono/bearer-auth';
import { zValidator } from '@hono/zod-validator';
import { z } from 'zod';

const app = new Hono();

app.use('*', logger());
app.use('/api/*', cors());
app.use('/admin/*', bearerAuth({ token: 'secret' }));

app.post('/api/users',
  zValidator('json', z.object({
    name: z.string().min(2),
    email: z.string().email(),
  })),
  async (c) => {
    const data = c.req.valid('json');
    return c.json({ user: data });
  }
);

Deploy Everywhere

// Same code runs on:
// - Cloudflare Workers
// - Deno Deploy
// - Bun
// - AWS Lambda
// - Vercel Edge
// - Node.js
export default app;

RPC Mode (Type-Safe Client)

// Server
const routes = app.get('/api/posts', async (c) => {
  return c.json(await getPosts());
});
export type AppType = typeof routes;

// Client
import { hc } from 'hono/client';
import type { AppType } from './server';

const client = hc<AppType>('http://localhost:3000');
const posts = await client.api.posts.$get();

Key Features

Ultrafast — one of the fastest JS frameworks
Multi-runtime — Workers, Deno, Bun, Node, Lambda
Tiny — ~14KB, zero dependencies
Middleware — auth, cors, logger, compress, JWT
Validator — Zod integration built-in
RPC — type-safe client like tRPC

Resources

Need to extract API data, edge runtime metrics, or web framework configs? Check out my Apify tools or email spinov001@gmail.com for custom solutions.

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