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 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, 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 instructions below.
• Share - Share your thoughts on the Blog, X, and others.
• Make your application - Please try to use Hono.

Contributors

Thanks to all contributors!

Authors

Yusuke Wada

RegExpRouter, SmartRouter, LinearRouter, and PatternRouter are created by Taku Amano

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.