837: You Should Drop Express and Try Hono

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CJ joins Scott and Wes to dive into why he’s all-in on Hono, a fast and lightweight web framework for every JavaScript runtime. From familiar route creation to type-safe middleware, find out how Hono keeps things simple, powerful, and ready to use inside Next.js.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:46 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 01:11 What is Hono?
  • Watch CJ’s Video Here
• 03:21 Syntax Meetup San Francisco.
• 04:02 Why I like Hono, and why you should try it.
• 04:08 Familiar route creation.
  • Connect: an extensible HTTP server framework for node.
• 05:45 Supports every JS Runtime.
• 07:00 How a service worker works.
• 08:48 Helpers.
• 09:16 Middleware.
• 10:40 Sentry middleware.
• 10:55 JSX support.
• 13:21 Organizing route handlers while keeping Types.
• 14:24 Type safety.
  • hono-open-api-starter.
  • zod-openapi.
• 15:46 Defining base type.
  • Pinojs
• 17:36 Validation.
• 18:52 Hono RPC client.
• 22:09 Hono inside of Next.js.
• 23:30 Testing.
• 25:22 The community.
• 27:34 Type support.

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