837: You Should Drop Express and Try Hono
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
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?
- 03:21 Syntax Meetup San Francisco.
- 04:02 Why I like Hono, and why you should try it.
- 04:08 Familiar route creation.
- 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.
- 15:46 Defining base type.
- 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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax in this episode, this Monday hasty treat, we have CJ Reynolds on and he's going to share with us why you should be checking out and using Hono. |
| 0:12.0 | Hono being the modern new JavaScript, I don't know, |
| 0:16.8 | back in framework or is it a server? |
| 0:18.6 | I don't know, we're going to learn from CJ what the heck this thing is and |
| 0:21.2 | why you should use it. |
| 0:22.0 | My name is Scott |
| 0:22.6 | Tolinsky I'm a developer from Denver and with me as always is West but also |
| 0:26.3 | CJ what's up CJ not much super excited to talk about Hono I've released a |
| 0:31.4 | video on building an API with it and more videos coming soon on Hono. So yeah, Hono is great. I've been loving it. |
| 0:36.8 | Sick. Cool. Well, we're super stoked. If you are using Hono you probably have an application you want to make sure |
| 0:50.2 | maybe it's your first time using Hono and you want to catch all those bugs you might introduce |
| 0:54.7 | because maybe you didn't watch CJ's video and you thought you could do it yourself and you |
| 0:59.0 | introduce some bugs into your code base. Well you want to check out Century at century dot I hope forward slash syntax sign up and get two months for free |
| 1:05.8 | you got to use that coupon code at tasty treat but you use that coupon code you get |
| 1:09.1 | two months for free solve your bugs with Century. All right, CJ, let's kick it off. |
| 1:15.0 | What is Hono? Why should we care? |
| 1:17.0 | What do you love about it? |
| 1:18.0 | Let's hear it. |
| 1:19.0 | So yeah, Hono is a web application framework. |
| 1:21.0 | They call themselves fast, lightweight, |
| 1:22.0 | built on web standards |
| 1:23.4 | and supports any JavaScript runtime. So essentially if you're in the JavaScript ecosystem and you have or |
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