Routing

Routes connect HTTP methods and paths to handlers. A handler receives the request context and returns a response.

app.get('/chapters/:slug', (c) => {
  const slug = c.req.param('slug')
  return c.text(`Reading ${slug}`)
})

Parameters

Use path parameters when a route represents a family of resources. In this book, /chapters/:slug maps a chapter slug to a Markdown file.

const slug = c.req.param('slug')

Response helpers

Hono includes helpers for common response types:

• c.text() for plain text.
• c.json() for JSON.
• c.html() for raw HTML or JSX.
• c.redirect() for redirects.

Those helpers keep route handlers short and easy to scan.