honojs/hono

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31977 stars · 1257 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Hono is a small, ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards APIs with zero dependencies. It runs on any JavaScript runtime including Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, AWS Lambda, and Node.js, with first-class TypeScript support and built-in middleware.

Use cases

• build a fast REST API in TypeScript
• create an API backend for Cloudflare Workers
• build a serverless web API on AWS Lambda
• proxy requests to backend servers
• build a full-stack application backend
• run the same API code across multiple JS runtimes
• build a lightweight edge application on a CDN
• create a base server for a library

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, fast web framework for edge or serverless environments
• you want one codebase to run on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Lambda, and Node.js
• you want Express-like APIs with first-class TypeScript support
• you need built-in middleware and helpers with zero dependencies

When to avoid

• you need a full-stack framework with frontend rendering built in
• your team relies on Node.js-specific middleware or Express ecosystem packages
• you need heavy server-side features like built-in ORM or background jobs

Facets

framework · maturity stable

web-framework routing middleware http-server api-framework web-development backend apis developer-tools bun cloud cross-platform cloudflare-workers edge-computing serverless web-standards lambda fastly-compute vercel netlify nodejs deno typescript

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