hono/README.md

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Documentation 👉 hono.dev
v3 has been released! Migration guide

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Hono - [炎] means flame🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Deno, Bun, Vercel, Lagon, 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 my-app

Features

• Ultrafast 🚀 - The router RegExpRouter is really fast. Not using linear loops. Fast.
• Lightweight 🪶 - The hono/tiny preset is under 12kB. Hono has zero dependencies and uses only the Web Standard API.
• Multi-runtime 🌍 - Works on Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Deno, Bun, Lagon, 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".

Benchmarks

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

Hono x 510,171 ops/sec ±4.61% (82 runs sampled)
itty-router x 285,810 ops/sec ±4.13% (85 runs sampled)
sunder x 345,272 ops/sec ±4.46% (87 runs sampled)
worktop x 203,468 ops/sec ±3.03% (91 runs sampled)
Fastest is Hono
✨  Done in 28.68s.

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!

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.