The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono

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This post details the origin and evolution of the Hono web framework, highlighting its design principles (Trie tree router, Web Standards API), multi-runtime support (Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, Node.js), and its adoption within Cloudflare for core products like D1, Workers Logs, KV, and Queues. It showcases how Hono simplifies application development on Cloudflare Workers by providing a more expressive API for routing, parameter extraction, and integration with Cloudflare bindings compared to vanilla JavaScript. The post also emphasizes Hono's small bundle size and extensibility through middleware.