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Hono Has a Free Ultrafast Web Framework — Build APIs That Run Everywhere

A developer needed an API that runs on Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, Deno Deploy, AND Node.js. Different runtimes, different frameworks, different code? Not anymore.

Hono is a free, ultrafast web framework that runs on every JavaScript runtime. One codebase, deploy anywhere.

What Hono Offers for Free

  • Multi-Runtime - Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js, AWS Lambda, Vercel
  • Ultrafast - Fastest router in benchmarks
  • TypeScript First - Full type safety for routes and middleware
  • Middleware - Auth, CORS, logger, compress, rate limit
  • JSX - Server-side JSX rendering built-in
  • OpenAPI - Auto-generate OpenAPI docs from routes
  • RPC - Type-safe client from server routes
  • Tiny - 14KB base size, zero dependencies

Quick Start

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: 'John' })
})
export default app
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GitHub: honojs/hono - 22K+ stars


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