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
npm create hono@latest
RegExpRouter is really fast. Not using linear loops. Fast.hono/tiny preset is under 12kB. Hono has zero dependencies and uses only the Web Standard API.The documentation is available on hono.dev.
The migration guide is available on docs/MIGRATION.md.
X and Discord channel are available.
Contributions Welcome! You can contribute in the following ways.
For more details, see docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.
Thanks to all contributors!
Yusuke Wada https://github.com/yusukebe
RegExpRouter, SmartRouter, LinearRouter, and PatternRouter are created by Taku Amano https://github.com/usualoma
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
Express is a widely-used web framework for Node.js, known for its simplicity and flexibility. It offers a robust set of features for web and mobile applications, including routing, middleware support, and more. Compared to Hono, Express has a larger community and more extensive documentation, but Hono aims to be more lightweight and faster.
Koa is a web framework designed by the team behind Express. It aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Koa uses async functions to help eliminate callback hell and improve error handling. Compared to Hono, Koa is more modern and has a different approach to middleware, using a stack-like structure.
Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is designed for high performance and low overhead. Compared to Hono, Fastify is more feature-rich and has a more extensive ecosystem, but Hono aims to be simpler and more lightweight.
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Web framework built on Web Standards
The npm package hono receives a total of 21,124,009 weekly downloads. As such, hono popularity was classified as popular.
We found that hono demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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