Hono Has a Free Web Framework — Ultra-Fast APIs on Any Runtime

Hono is an ultralight web framework that runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js, and more.

What You Get for Free

• Multi-runtime — same code runs on Workers, Deno, Bun, Node, AWS Lambda
• Ultra-fast — fastest router among JS frameworks (benchmark-proven)
• TypeScript-first — full type safety, zero config
• Middleware — CORS, JWT, Basic Auth, Logger, ETag built-in
• RPC mode — end-to-end type-safe client like tRPC
• Validator — Zod integration for request validation
• JSX — server-side JSX without React
• File-based routing — optional, like Next.js

Quick Start

npm create hono@latest my-app

import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()

app.get('/api/users', (c) => {
  return c.json({ users: ['Alice', 'Bob'] })
})

export default app

Why Developers Switch from Express

Express is 10+ years old and wasn't designed for edge:

• 100x faster — Hono's RegExpRouter vs Express routing
• Edge-native — deploy to Cloudflare Workers (0ms cold start)
• Type-safe — full TypeScript inference on routes, params, body
• Tiny — 14KB vs Express 200KB+ with middleware

A startup migrated their Express API (12 routes) to Hono on Cloudflare Workers. Response time dropped from 200ms to 8ms, and hosting cost went from $25/month to $0 (Workers free tier).

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