This adapter @hono/node-server allows you to run your Hono application on Node.js.
Initially, Hono wasn't designed for Node.js, but with this adapter, you can now use Hono on Node.js.
It utilizes web standard APIs implemented in Node.js version 18 or higher.
Hono is 3.5 times faster than Express.
Express:
$ bombardier -d 10s --fasthttp http://localhost:3000/
Statistics Avg Stdev Max
Reqs/sec 16438.94 1603.39 19155.47
Latency 7.60ms 7.51ms 559.89ms
HTTP codes:
1xx - 0, 2xx - 164494, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
others - 0
Throughput: 4.55MB/sHono + @hono/node-server:
$ bombardier -d 10s --fasthttp http://localhost:3000/
Statistics Avg Stdev Max
Reqs/sec 58296.56 5512.74 74403.56
Latency 2.14ms 1.46ms 190.92ms
HTTP codes:
1xx - 0, 2xx - 583059, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
others - 0
Throughput: 12.56MB/sIt works on Node.js versions greater than 18.x. The specific required Node.js versions are as follows:
- 18.x => 18.14.1+
- 19.x => 19.7.0+
- 20.x => 20.0.0+
Essentially, you can simply use the latest version of each major release.
You can install it from the npm registry with npm command:
npm install @hono/node-serverOr use yarn:
yarn add @hono/node-serverJust import @hono/node-server at the top and write the code as usual.
The same code that runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Bun will work.
import { serve } from '@hono/node-server'
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()
app.get('/', (c) => c.text('Hono meets Node.js'))
serve(app, (info) => {
console.log(`Listening on http://localhost:${info.port}`) // Listening on http://localhost:3000
})For example, run it using ts-node. Then an HTTP server will be launched. The default port is 3000.
ts-node ./index.tsOpen http://localhost:3000 with your browser.
serve({
fetch: app.fetch,
port: 8787, // Port number, default is 3000
})import { createServer } from 'node:https'
import fs from 'node:fs'
//...
serve({
fetch: app.fetch,
createServer: createServer,
serverOptions: {
key: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent1-key.pem'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent1-cert.pem'),
},
})The default value is true. The Node.js Adapter rewrites the global Request/Response and uses a lightweight Request/Response to improve performance. If you don't want to do that, set false.
serve({
fetch: app.fetch,
overrideGlobalObjects: false,
})Most built-in middleware also works with Node.js. Read the documentation and use the Middleware of your liking.
import { serve } from '@hono/node-server'
import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { prettyJSON } from 'hono/pretty-json'
const app = new Hono()
app.get('*', prettyJSON())
app.get('/', (c) => c.json({ 'Hono meets': 'Node.js' }))
serve(app)Use Serve Static Middleware that has been created for Node.js.
import { serveStatic } from '@hono/node-server/serve-static'
//...
app.use('/static/*', serveStatic({ root: './' }))Note that root must be relative to the current working directory from which the app was started. Absolute paths are not supported.
This can cause confusion when running your application locally.
Imagine your project structure is:
my-hono-project/
src/
index.ts
static/
index.html
Typically, you would run your app from the project's root directory (my-hono-project),
so you would need the following code to serve the static folder:
app.use('/static/*', serveStatic({ root: './static' }))Notice that root here is not relative to src/index.ts, rather to my-hono-project.
If you want to serve files in ./.foojs with the request path /__foo/*, you can write like the following.
app.use(
'/__foo/*',
serveStatic({
root: './.foojs/',
rewriteRequestPath: (path: string) => path.replace(/^\/__foo/, ''),
})
)You can specify handling when the requested file is found with onFound.
app.use(
'/static/*',
serveStatic({
// ...
onFound: (_path, c) => {
c.header('Cache-Control', `public, immutable, max-age=31536000`)
},
})
)The onNotFound is useful for debugging. You can write a handle for when a file is not found.
app.use(
'/static/*',
serveStatic({
root: './non-existent-dir',
onNotFound: (path, c) => {
console.log(`${path} is not found, request to ${c.req.path}`)
},
})
)The precompressed option checks if files with extensions like .br or .gz are available and serves them based on the Accept-Encoding header. It prioritizes Brotli, then Zstd, and Gzip. If none are available, it serves the original file.
app.use(
'/static/*',
serveStatic({
precompressed: true,
})
)You can use the ConnInfo Helper by importing getConnInfo from @hono/node-server/conninfo.
import { getConnInfo } from '@hono/node-server/conninfo'
app.get('/', (c) => {
const info = getConnInfo(c) // info is `ConnInfo`
return c.text(`Your remote address is ${info.remote.address}`)
})You can access the Node.js API from c.env in Node.js. For example, if you want to specify a type, you can write the following.
import { serve } from '@hono/node-server'
import type { HttpBindings } from '@hono/node-server'
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono<{ Bindings: HttpBindings }>()
app.get('/', (c) => {
return c.json({
remoteAddress: c.env.incoming.socket.remoteAddress,
})
})
serve(app)The APIs that you can get from c.env are as follows.
type HttpBindings = {
incoming: IncomingMessage
outgoing: ServerResponse
}
type Http2Bindings = {
incoming: Http2ServerRequest
outgoing: Http2ServerResponse
}You can directly respond to the client from the Node.js API.
In that case, the response from Hono should be ignored, so return RESPONSE_ALREADY_SENT.
Note
This feature can be used when migrating existing Node.js applications to Hono, but we recommend using Hono's API for new applications.
import { serve } from '@hono/node-server'
import type { HttpBindings } from '@hono/node-server'
import { RESPONSE_ALREADY_SENT } from '@hono/node-server/utils/response'
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono<{ Bindings: HttpBindings }>()
app.get('/', (c) => {
const { outgoing } = c.env
outgoing.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' })
outgoing.end('Hello World\n')
return RESPONSE_ALREADY_SENT
})
serve(app)- Hono - https://hono.dev
- Hono GitHub repository - https://github.com/honojs/hono
Yusuke Wada https://github.com/yusukebe
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