Hono - means flame🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.
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
Features
- Ultrafast 🚀 - The router
RegExpRouteris really fast. Not using linear loops. Fast. - Lightweight 🪶 - The
hono/tinypreset is under 12kB. Hono has zero dependencies and uses only the Web Standard API. - Multi-runtime 🌍 - Works on Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, 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 😃 - Super clean APIs. First-class TypeScript support. Now, we've got "Types".
Documentation
The documentation is available on hono.dev.
Migration
The migration guide is available on docs/MIGRATION.md.
Communication
X 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 or typo. Refactor the code.
- Create third-party middleware - See Third-party middleware.
- Share - Share your thoughts on the Blog, X, and others.
- Make your application - Please try to use Hono.
For more details, see docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.
Contributors
Thanks to all contributors!
Authors
Yusuke Wada https://github.com/yusukebe
RegExpRouter, SmartRouter, LinearRouter, and PatternRouter are created by Taku Amano https://github.com/usualoma
License
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.