Hono

Hono [炎] - Tiny web framework for Cloudflare Workers and others.

const { Hono } = require('hono')
const app = new Hono()

app.get('/', () => new Response('Hono!!'))

app.fire()

Feature

• Fast - the router is implemented with Trie-Tree structure.
• Portable - zero dependencies.
• Flexible - you can make your own middlewares.
• Easy - simple API, builtin middleware, and TypeScript support.
• Optimized - for Cloudflare Workers or Fastly Compute@Edge.

Benchmark

Hono is fastest!!

hono x 758,264 ops/sec ±5.41% (75 runs sampled)
itty-router x 158,359 ops/sec ±3.21% (89 runs sampled)
sunder x 297,581 ops/sec ±4.74% (83 runs sampled)
Fastest is hono
✨  Done in 42.84s.

Install

$ yarn add hono

or

$ npm install hono

Methods

• app.HTTP_METHOD(path, handler)
• app.all(path, handler)
• app.route(path)
• app.use(path, middleware)

Routing

Basic

app.HTTP_METHOD

// HTTP Methods
app.get('/', () => new Response('GET /'))
app.post('/', () => new Response('POST /'))

// Wildcard
app.get('/wild/*/card', () => {
  return new Response('GET /wild/*/card')
})

app.all

// Any HTTP methods
app.all('/hello', () => new Response('ALL Method /hello'))

Named Parameter

app.get('/user/:name', (c) => {
  const name = c.req.params('name')
  ...
})

Regexp

app.get('/post/:date{[0-9]+}/:title{[a-z]+}', (c) => {
  const date = c.req.params('date')
  const title = c.req.params('title')
  ...

Chained Route

app
  .route('/api/book')
    .get(() => {...})
    .post(() => {...})
    .put(() => {...})

Async

app.get('/fetch-url', async () => {
  const response = await fetch('https://example.com/')
  return new Response(`Status is ${response.status}`)
})

Middleware

Builtin Middleware

const { Hono, Middleware } = require('hono')

...

app.use('*', Middleware.poweredBy())
app.use('*', Middleware.logger())

Custom Middleware

// Custom logger
app.use('*', async (c, next) => {
  console.log(`[${c.req.method}] ${c.req.url}`)
  await next()
})

// Add custom header
app.use('/message/*', async (c, next) => {
  await next()
  await c.res.headers.add('x-message', 'This is middleware!')
})

app.get('/message/hello', () => 'Hello Middleware!')

Custom 404 Response

app.use('*', async (c, next) => {
  await next()
  if (c.res.status === 404) {
    c.res = new Response('Custom 404 Not Found', { status: 404 })
  }
})

Complex Pattern

// Output response time
app.use('*', async (c, next) => {
  await next()
  const responseTime = await c.res.headers.get('X-Response-Time')
  console.log(`X-Response-Time: ${responseTime}`)
})

// Add X-Response-Time header
app.use('*', async (c, next) => {
  const start = Date.now()
  await next()
  const ms = Date.now() - start
  await c.res.headers.append('X-Response-Time', `${ms}ms`)
})

Context

req

// Get Request object
app.get('/hello', (c) => {
  const userAgent = c.req.headers.get('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.params('id')
  ...
})

res

// Response object
app.use('/', (c, next) => {
  next()
  c.res.headers.append('X-Debug', 'Debug message')
})

text

app.get('/say', (c) => {
  return c.text('Hello!')
})

json

app.get('/api', (c) => {
  return c.json({ message: 'Hello!' })
})

Hono in 1 minute

Create your first Cloudflare Workers with Hono from scratch.

1. Install Wrangler

Install Cloudflare Command Line "Wrangler"

$ npm i @cloudflare/wrangler -g

2. npm init

Make npm skeleton directory.

$ mkdir hono-example
$ ch hono-example
$ npm init -y

3. wrangler init

Init as a wrangler project.

$ wrangler init

4. npm install hono

Install hono from npm repository.

$ npm i hono

5. Write your app

Only 4 line!!

const { Hono } = require('hono')
const app = new Hono()

app.get('/', () => new Response('Hello! Hono!'))

app.fire()

6. Run!

Run the development server locally.

$ wrangler dev

Related projects

• koa https://github.com/koajs/koa
• express https://github.com/expressjs/express
• oak https://github.com/oakserver/oak
• itty-router https://github.com/kwhitley/itty-router
• Sunder https://github.com/SunderJS/sunder
• goblin https://github.com/bmf-san/goblin

Author

Yusuke Wada https://github.com/yusukebe

License

MIT