837: You Should Drop Express and Try Hono
Oct 21, 2024•30 min
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Episode description
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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