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Hono - [炎] means flame🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edge. It works on Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Deno, Bun, Vercel, Lagon, Node.js, and others. Fast, but not only fast.

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

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

export default app

Quick Start

npm create hono@latest my-app

Features

  • Ultrafast - The routers are really fast and smart. Not using linear loops. Fast.
  • Multi-runtime - Works on Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Deno, Bun, Lagon, or Node.js. The same code runs on all platforms.
  • Batteries Included - Hono has built-in middleware, custom middleware, and third-party middleware. Batteries included.
  • Delightful DX - First-class TypeScript support. Now, we've got "Types".
  • Small - About 20kB. Zero-dependencies. Using only Web Standard API.

Benchmarks

Hono is the fastest, compared to other routers for Cloudflare Workers.

Hono x 385,807 ops/sec ±5.02% (76 runs sampled)
itty-router x 205,318 ops/sec ±3.63% (84 runs sampled)
sunder x 287,198 ops/sec ±4.90% (74 runs sampled)
worktop x 191,134 ops/sec ±3.06% (85 runs sampled)
Fastest is Hono
✨  Done in 27.51s.

Documentation

The documentation is available on hono.dev.

Migration

The migration guide is available on docs/MIGRATION.md.

Communication

Twitter and Discord channel are available.

Contributing

Contributions Welcome! You can contribute in the following ways.

  • Create an Issue - Propose a new feature. Report a bug.
  • Pull Request - Fix a bug and typo. Refactor the code.
  • Create third-party middleware - Instruct below.
  • Share - Share your thoughts on the Blog, Twitter, and others.
  • Make your application - Please try to use Hono.

For more details, see docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contributors

Thanks to all contributors! Especially, @metrue and @usualoma!

Author

Yusuke Wada https://github.com/yusukebe

"RegExpRouter" and "SmartRouter" are created by Taku Amano https://github.com/usualoma

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.