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

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