Hono Has a Free API You Should Know About

Hono is an ultrafast web framework for the Edge. It runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, and Node.js — write once, deploy anywhere.

Why Hono is the Edge Framework

A developer needed one API that runs on Cloudflare Workers in production and Node.js in development. Express doesn't work on Workers. Hono runs everywhere — same code, any runtime.

Key Features:

• Multi-Runtime — Cloudflare, Deno, Bun, Node.js, AWS Lambda
• Ultrafast — Zero-overhead router, fastest in benchmarks
• Tiny — 14KB, no dependencies
• Middleware — Auth, CORS, compression, logging built-in
• RPC Mode — Type-safe client like tRPC

Quick Start

npm create hono@latest

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")
  return c.json({ id, name: "Alice" })
})

app.post("/api/users", async (c) => {
  const body = await c.req.json()
  return c.json({ created: true, ...body }, 201)
})

export default app

Middleware

import { cors } from "hono/cors"
import { jwt } from "hono/jwt"
import { logger } from "hono/logger"

app.use("*", logger())
app.use("/api/*", cors())
app.use("/api/*", jwt({ secret: "my-secret" }))

RPC Mode (Type-Safe Client)

// Server
const route = app.get("/api/users", (c) => c.json([{ name: "Alice" }]))
export type AppType = typeof route

// Client
import { hc } from "hono/client"
const client = hc<AppType>("http://localhost:3000")
const res = await client.api.users.$get() // Fully typed!

Why Choose Hono

1. Any runtime — same code everywhere
2. Ultrafast — fastest web framework
3. Type-safe — RPC client with full inference

Check out Hono docs to get started.

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