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Hono is a modern and powerful JavaScript server framework.
I like it in particular because it’s lightweight and is very similar to how Express works, so I can reuse the mental models I already know, but it has better support for promises and async/await, and also allows us to easily use JSX, something I really like to built templates instead of EJS or Pug or Handlebars or whatever server-side template engine you might use in Express.
Let’s find out how to use it.
prerequisites
- Knowledge of JavaScript
- Knowledge of Node.js or Bun
- HTTP networking basics
Lessons in this unit:
| 0: | ▶︎ Introduction |
| 1: | Your first Hono app |
| 2: | The Request object |
| 3: | Send a response to the client |
| 4: | Manage cookies |
| 5: | Work with HTTP headers |
| 6: | Handling redirects |
| 7: | Routing |
| 8: | JSX templates |
| 9: | Middleware |
| 10: | Hono on Node.js |