Hono
Ultralight web framework that runs everywhere. Cloudflare, Vercel, Bun, Deno.
In plain English
Like a kitchen in a restaurant. Customers (your website) place orders, and the kitchen (Hono) prepares the food (data) and sends it back. It's where the behind-the-scenes work happens.
Real-world example
You're building a job board. When someone searches for 'marketing jobs in NYC', the website sends that request to your Hono backend, which looks up matching jobs in the database and sends the results back to display.
Where this fits in your project
This is your API layer — the code that handles requests, talks to databases, and sends data to your frontend.
When to use this
When you need a lightweight API or backend that runs anywhere — Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Bun, Node. It's like Express but modern and tiny.
The situation
You need API endpoints for your app, or you want to build a serverless API that's fast and cheap to host.
Good for
- + REST APIs
- + Edge functions
- + Microservices
- + Serverless backends
Not ideal for
- - When you just need a simple frontend
- - When Next.js API routes are enough
Getting started
Run `npm create hono@latest` and pick your runtime (Cloudflare, Node, Bun, etc).