A Little About Hono

What’s Hono?

Hono is a small and fast web framework for building APIs and web apps in JavaScript and TypeScript. It is lightweight, modern, and works across different runtimes like Node.js, Bun, and Deno.

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Setup

Open Git Bash and go to your project folder.
initialize npm.
open package.json with nano and add ‘ ”type” : “module”, ‘ inside. This makes npm work with Hono or other modules that use ES modules.

Use nano to edit a file, or create one if it doesn’t exist.
and install hono.

and don’t forget from install @hono/node-server.

if you don’t install this, you will get an error when running the file later, like this

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Create File

create a file named service.js (you can use nano or any editor)

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Run the server

write this code inside file server.js

Save and exit with Ctrl + X, then press Y, then Enter.
Run the code with node server.js

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Routes Result

Open http://localhost:3000/ → you will see the main page.
Open http://localhost:3000/text → you will see the text response, or click /text in main page
Open http://localhost:3000/json → you will see the JSON response, or click /json in main page