hono VS hattip

I used hono to implement worker.

Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges

Hono is an ultrafast web framework for the edge and it's amazing. It's simple as express and the DX is mind-blowing. And now you can also serve JSX with it 🤯. Anyone in the industry for long enough knows that a setup like this can be quite tedious to manage and maintain. I might sound biased for Hono, and that's true, I love it ❤️.

Please could a fellow HNer who has experience using this explain in simple terms what Hono on a Cloudflare Worker enables that one cannot already do with a vanilla worker?

The docs[0] are not instructive on this point.

[0] https://hono.dev

Hono, a powerful framework, is our secret sauce for crafting high-performance APIs. With its intuitive syntax and seamless integration with Next.js, Hono simplifies the process of optimizing API performance.

Hono—a simple and fast framework for processing HTTP requests.

A good alternative of this can be - [Hono]https://hono.dev/

I agree that “fast, lightweight, web standards” isn’t much of a description but not too far down https://github.com/honojs/hono I did this:

> Hono … is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.

Hono offers good DX and a blazingly fast library to help you build your backend with native RPC embedded in its code. It has Zod support and it's written with TypeScript with very readable types so you can understand what's happening. It also supports Bun and a bunch of runtimes so you can run it everywhere. Check the documentation! It's also very helpful.

Initialize your hono project using bun:

That is exactly what Hattip is all about!

Let's start up a new project and install these. We will use pnpm, as it is now the best and most loved choice. Also for quick setup, we will use Vite for the client side and HatTip for our backend handler for more convenient readable stream handling.

HatTip - supports universal middleware and deployments, small & lightweight, seems promising

You'll probably like Hattip

To (optionally?) provide plugins on how a server should handle these files in a server framework like hattip

As we discussed before, Rakkas relies on HatTip for handling HTTP so we will use the @hattip/cookie package to manage cookies:

Then we should install the HatTip adapter for Cloudflare Workers. HatTip is a set of JavaScript libraries for building HTTP server applications that run on many platforms like Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, Deno, and more. Rakkas relies on it for serverless support.

Rakkas 0.6 is now built on HatTip, an HTTP server library that abstracts away the differences between various JavaScript runtimes building on the web standards like Request, Response, and streams. Rakkas already ran on Node, Vercel Serverless Functions, Netlify Functions, and Cloudflare Workers. HatTip integration adds support for Vercel Edge, and Netlify Edge. There's also preliminary support for Deno (including Deno Deploy). Bun support is work in progress.

HatTip[1] just added preliminary Bun support[2].

(HatTip's goal is to enable users (and library authors) to write universal server code that runs anywhere: Node.js, Edge, Deno, Bun, ...)

@Jarred: Curious to know what you think of HatTip!

[1]: https://github.com/hattipjs/hattip