Hono Has a Free Ultrafast Web Framework That Runs on Every JavaScript Runtime

Hono is an ultrafast web framework for Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js, and every JavaScript runtime. It is 3.5x faster than Express.

What You Get for Free

• Multi-runtime — works on Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js
• Ultrafast — based on RegExpRouter
• TypeScript native — full type inference
• Middleware — JWT, CORS, logger, compress, etc.
• RPC — type-safe client-server communication
• JSX — server-side rendering built-in
• Zero dependencies — tiny bundle

Hello World

import { Hono } from 'hono';

const app = new Hono();
app.get('/', (c) => c.text('Hello Hono!'));
app.get('/api/users', (c) => c.json([{ id: 1, name: 'Alice' }]));

export default app;

Middleware

import { jwt } from 'hono/jwt';
import { cors } from 'hono/cors';

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

Hono vs Express

Feature	Hono	Express
Speed	3.5x faster	Baseline
Runtime	Any JS runtime	Node.js
TypeScript	Native	Manual
Size	14KB	200KB+

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