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Hono - [炎] means flame🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for Cloudflare Workers and Service Worker based serverless such as Fastly Compute@Edge.
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()
app.get('/', (c) => c.text('Hono!!'))
app.fire()
Features
- Ultrafast - the router does not use linear loops.
- Zero-dependencies - using only Service Worker and Web standard API.
- Middleware - built-in middleware and ability to extend with your own middleware.
- TypeScript - first-class TypeScript support.
- Optimized - for Cloudflare Workers and Fastly Compute@Edge.
Benchmark
Hono is fastest, compared to other routers for Cloudflare Workers.
hono x 809,503 ops/sec ±6.94% (73 runs sampled)
itty-router x 157,310 ops/sec ±4.31% (87 runs sampled)
sunder x 328,350 ops/sec ±2.30% (95 runs sampled)
worktop x 209,758 ops/sec ±4.28% (83 runs sampled)
Fastest is hono
✨ Done in 60.66s.
Hono in 1 minute
A demonstration to create an application for Cloudflare Workers with Hono.
Not only fast
Hono is fast. But not only fast.
Write Less, do more
Built-in middleware make "Write Less, do more" in reality. You can use a lot of middleware without writing code from scratch. Below are examples.
- Basic Authentication
- Cookie parsing / serializing
- CORS
- ETag
- GraphQL Server
- Logger
- Mustache template engine (Only for Cloudflare Workers)
- JSON pretty printing
- Serving static files (Only for Cloudflare Workers)
You can enable logger and CORS middleware with just this code.
import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { cors } from 'hono/cors'
import { logger } from 'hono/logger'
const app = new Hono()
app.use('*', cors()).use(logger())
Developer Experience
And Hono provides fine "Developer Experience". Easy access to Request/Response thanks to the Context
object.
Above all, Hono is written in TypeScript. So, Hono has "Types"!
For example, the named path parameters will be literal types.
Install
You can install Hono from the npm registry.
yarn add hono
or
npm install hono
Methods
An instance of Hono
has these methods.
- app.HTTP_METHOD([path,] handler)
- app.all([path,] handler)
- app.route(path)
- app.use([path,] middleware)
- app.notFound(handler)
- app.onError(err, handler)
- app.fire()
- app.fetch(request, env, event)
- app.request(path, option)
Routing
Basic
// HTTP Methods
app.get('/', (c) => c.text('GET /'))
app.post('/', (c) => c.text('POST /'))
// Wildcard
app.get('/wild/*/card', (c) => {
return c.text('GET /wild/*/card')
})
// Any HTTP methods
app.all('/hello', (c) => c.text('Any Method /hello'))
Named Parameter
app.get('/user/:name', (c) => {
const name = c.req.param('name')
...
})
Regexp
app.get('/post/:date{[0-9]+}/:title{[a-z]+}', (c) => {
const date = c.req.param('date')
const title = c.req.param('title')
...
})
Chained route
app
.get('/endpoint', (c) => {
return c.text('GET /endpoint')
})
.post((c) => {
return c.text('POST /endpoint')
})
.delete((c) => {
return c.text('DELETE /endpoint')
})
Nested route
const book = app.route('/book')
book.get('/', (c) => c.text('List Books')) // GET /book
book.get('/:id', (c) => {
// GET /book/:id
const id = c.req.param('id')
return c.text('Get Book: ' + id)
})
book.post('/', (c) => c.text('Create Book')) // POST /book
no strict
If strict
is set false, /hello
and/hello/
are treated the same.
const app = new Hono({ strict: false }) // Default is true
app.get('/hello', (c) => c.text('/hello or /hello/'))
async/await
app.get('/fetch-url', async (c) => {
const response = await fetch('https://example.com/')
return c.text(`Status is ${response.status}`)
})
Middleware
Built-in Middleware
Hono has built-in middleware.
import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { poweredBy } from 'hono/powered-by'
import { logger } from 'hono/logger'
import { basicAuth } from 'hono/basicAuth'
const app = new Hono()
app.use('*', poweredBy())
app.use('*', logger())
// Or you can write:
// app.use('*', poweredBy()).use(logger())
app.use(
'/auth/*',
basicAuth({
username: 'hono',
password: 'acoolproject',
})
)
Available built-in middleware is listed on src/middleware.
Custom Middleware
You can write your own middleware.
// Custom logger
app.use('*', async (c, next) => {
console.log(`[${c.req.method}] ${c.req.url}`)
await next()
})
// Add a custom header
app.use('/message/*', async (c, next) => {
await next()
c.header('x-message', 'This is middleware!')
})
app.get('/message/hello', (c) => c.text('Hello Middleware!'))
Not Found
app.notFound
for customizing Not Found Response.
app.notFound((c) => {
return c.text('Custom 404 Message', 404)
})
Error Handling
app.onError
handle the error and return the customized Response.
app.onError((err, c) => {
console.error(`${err}`)
return c.text('Custom Error Message', 500)
})
Context
To handle Request and Reponse, you can use Context
object.
c.req
// Get Request object
app.get('/hello', (c) => {
const userAgent = c.req.headers.get('User-Agent')
...
})
// Shortcut to get a header value
app.get('/shortcut', (c) => {
const userAgent = c.req.header('User-Agent')
...
})
// Query params
app.get('/search', (c) => {
const query = c.req.query('q')
...
})
// Captured params
app.get('/entry/:id', (c) => {
const id = c.req.param('id')
...
})
Shortcuts for Response
app.get('/welcome', (c) => {
// Set headers
c.header('X-Message', 'Hello!')
c.header('Content-Type', 'text/plain')
// Set HTTP status code
c.status(201)
// Return the response body
return c.body('Thank you for comming')
})
The Response is the same as below.
new Response('Thank you for comming', {
status: 201,
statusText: 'Created',
headers: {
'X-Message': 'Hello',
'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
'Content-Length': '22',
},
})
c.text()
Render text as Content-Type:text/plain
.
app.get('/say', (c) => {
return c.text('Hello!')
})
c.json()
Render JSON as Content-Type:application/json
.
app.get('/api', (c) => {
return c.json({ message: 'Hello!' })
})
c.html()
Render HTML as Content-Type:text/html
.
app.get('/', (c) => {
return c.html('<h1>Hello! Hono!</h1>')
})
c.notFound()
Return the Not Found
Response.
app.get('/notfound', (c) => {
return c.notFound()
})
c.redirect()
Redirect, default status code is 302
.
app.get('/redirect', (c) => c.redirect('/'))
app.get('/redirect-permanently', (c) => c.redirect('/', 301))
c.res
// Response object
app.use('/', (c, next) => {
next()
c.res.headers.append('X-Debug', 'Debug message')
})
c.event
// FetchEvent object
app.use('*', async (c, next) => {
c.event.waitUntil(
...
)
await next()
})
c.env
// Environment object for Cloudflare Workers
app.get('*', async c => {
const counter = c.env.COUNTER
...
})
fire
app.fire()
do this.
addEventListener('fetch', (event) => {
event.respondWith(this.handleEvent(event))
})
fetch
app.fetch
for Cloudflare Module Worker syntax.
export default {
fetch(request: Request, env: Env, event: FetchEvent) {
return app.fetch(request, env, event)
},
}
/*
or just do:
export default app
*/
request
request
is a useful method for testing.
test('GET /hello is ok', async () => {
const res = await app.request('http://localhost/hello')
expect(res.status).toBe(200)
})
Cloudflare Workers with Hono
Using Wrangler or Miniflare, you can develop the application locally and publish it with few commands.
Let's write your first code for Cloudflare Workers with Hono.
Caution
Wrangler 1.x does not support importing middleware. We recommend two ways:
- Use Wragler 2.0 Beta.
- Build without webpack 4.x. For example, you can use esbuild. See the starter template.
1. npm init
Make a npm skeleton directory.
mkdir hono-example
cd hono-example
npm init -y
2. wrangler init
Initialize as a wrangler project.
npx wrangler@beta init
Answer the questions. If you want, you can answer y
.
Would you like to install wrangler into your package.json? (y/n) <--- n
Would you like to use TypeScript? (y/n) <--- n
Would you like to create a Worker at src/index.js? (y/n) <--- n
3. npm install hono
Install hono
from the npm registry.
npm i hono
4. Write your app
Only 4 lines!!
// index.js
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()
app.get('/', (c) => c.text('Hello! Hono!'))
app.fire()
5. Run
Run the development server locally. Then, access http://127.0.0.1:8787/
in your Web browser.
npx wrangler@beta dev index.js
6. Publish
Deploy to Cloudflare. That's all!
npx wrangler@beta publish index.js
Starter template
You can start making your Cloudflare Workers application with the starter template. It is really minimal using TypeScript, esbuild, Miniflare, and Jest.
To generate a project skelton, run this command.
wrangler generate my-app https://github.com/honojs/hono-minimal
Related projects
Implementation of the original router TrieRouter
is inspired by goblin. RegExpRouter
is inspired by Router::Boom. API design is inspired by express and koa. itty-router, Sunder, and worktop are the other routers or frameworks for Cloudflare Workers.
- express https://github.com/expressjs/express
- koa https://github.com/koajs/koa
- itty-router https://github.com/kwhitley/itty-router
- Sunder https://github.com/SunderJS/sunder
- goblin https://github.com/bmf-san/goblin
- worktop https://github.com/lukeed/worktop
- Router::Boom https://github.com/tokuhirom/Router-Boom
Contributing
Contributions Welcome! You can contribute in the following ways.
- Write or fix documents
- Write code of middleware
- Fix bugs
- Refactor the code
- etc.
Contributors
Thanks to all contributors!
Author
Yusuke Wada https://github.com/yusukebe
License
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.