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Last Updated: 3/11/2026

Overview

Hono 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

Get started in seconds:

npm create hono@latest

Choose your runtime, and you’re ready to build.

Key Features

Ultrafast 🚀

The router RegExpRouter is really fast. Not using linear loops. Fast. Hono is the fastest among routers for Cloudflare Workers.

Lightweight 🪶

The hono/tiny preset is under 14kB when minified. 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. Path parameters become literal types automatically.

Use Cases

Hono is a simple web application framework similar to Express, without a frontend. But it runs on CDN Edges and allows you to construct larger applications when combined with middleware.

  • Building Web APIs
  • Proxy of backend servers
  • Front of CDN
  • Edge application
  • Base server for a library
  • Full-stack application

Who Uses Hono?

  • cdnjs - A free and open-source CDN service (Cloudflare Workers)
  • Cloudflare D1 - Serverless SQL databases (internal API server)
  • Cloudflare Workers KV - Serverless key-value database (internal API server)
  • Unkey - Open-source API authentication and authorization
  • OpenStatus - Open-source website & API monitoring platform (Bun)
  • Clerk - User Management Platform (Cloudflare Workers)

And many more. See Who is using Hono in production? .

Next Steps

Ready to get started? Check out the Installation guide to create your first Hono application.

RoutersFirst Application