hono
Web framework built on Web Standards
An ultralight, multi-runtime framework built for the edge.
When to choose it: Edge and serverless (Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Deno) where you need a tiny, fast framework that runs anywhere.
- + Tiny & very fast
- + Runs on any runtime
- + Great TypeScript
- - Younger ecosystem
- - Less battle-tested for large apps
- Latest version
- 4.12.23
- Monthly downloads
- 154,110,068
- GitHub stars
- 30,746
- Minified + gzip
- 7.2 kB
- Dependencies
- 0
- License
- MIT
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