Getting Started

The fastest way to begin a Hono project is with the official starter:

pnpm create hono@latest my-app

For this book, the chosen target is Cloudflare Pages. That gives you local development through Vite and a deployment path for honobook.com.

A minimal Hono app

Every Hono app starts with an application instance and one or more routes:

import { Hono } from 'hono'

const app = new Hono()

app.get('/', (c) => {
  return c.text('Hello Hono!')
})

export default app

The c value is Hono's context object. It represents the current request and gives you helpers for building responses.

Local development

Run the development server:

pnpm dev

The Cloudflare Pages template serves the app at http://localhost:5173 during development.