Make Hono work on Node.js

Node Congress

Node Congress 2025

Yusuke Wada

Build Your Web Framework From Scratch!

JS Nation

JSNation 2025

<p>Like Hono, you can easily create a backend web framework using Web Standards APIs such as Request and Response. These run on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, etc. In this talk, I will introduce how to make it, such as implementing routing using URLPatterns, Hono/Express-like syntax, middleware mechanisms, and server-side rendering with React. This is reinventing the wheel, but making your framework is fun!</p>

<p>The creator of Hono talks about Hono. Hono is a web framework using only Web Standard APIs and runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Bun. Now, in addition to those runtimes, it also runs on Node.js by using a Node.js adapter. However, there were some difficulties along the way. In this session, I will talk about how we adapted Hono to run on Node.js, improved its performance, and the possibility that we will support Connect-compatible middleware.</p>