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Hono

Use when building Hono web applications or when the user asks about Hono APIs, routing, middleware, JSX, validation, testing, or streaming. TRIGGER when code imports from 'hono' or 'hono/*', or user mentions Hono. Use `npx hono request` to test endpoints.

Specification
Skill ID
yusukebe/hono-skill/hono
Publisher
yusukebe
Repository
hono-skill
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0
Files
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Synced
Sep 16, 2026
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What this skill tells the agent

Hono Skill

Build Hono web applications. This skill provides inline API knowledge for AI. Use npx hono request to test endpoints. If the hono-docs MCP server is configured, prefer its tools for the latest documentation over the inline reference.

Hono CLI Usage

Request Testing

Test endpoints without starting an HTTP server. Uses app.request() internally.

# GET request
npx hono request [file] -P /path

# POST request with JSON body
npx hono request [file] -X POST -P /api/users -d '{"name": "test"}'

Note: Do not pass credentials directly in CLI arguments. Use environment variables for sensitive values. hono request does not support Cloudflare Workers bindings (KV, D1, R2, etc.). When bindings are required, use workers-fetch instead:

npx workers-fetch /path
npx workers-fetch -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"name":"test"}' /api/users

Hono API Reference

App Constructor

import { Hono } from 'hono'

const app = new Hono()

// With TypeScript generics
type Env = {
  Bindings: { DATABASE: D1Database; KV: KVNamespace }
  Variables: { user: User }
}
const app = new Hono<Env>()

Routing Methods

app.get('/path', handler)
app.post('/path', handler)
app.put('/path', handler)
app.delete('/path', handler)
app.patch('/path', handler)
app.options('/path', handler)
app.all('/path', handler) // all HTTP methods
app.on('PURGE', '/path', handler) // custom method
app.on(['PUT', 'DELETE'], '/path', handler) // multiple methods

Routing Patterns

// Path parameters
app.get('/user/:name', (c) => {
  const name = c.req.param('name')
  return c.json({ name })
})

// Multiple params
app.get('/posts/:id/comments/:commentId', (c) => {
  const { id, commentId } = c.req.param()
})

// Optional parameters
app.get('/api/animal/:type?', (c) => c.text('Animal!'))

// Wildcards
app.get('/wild/*/card', (c) => c.text('Wildcard'))

// Regexp constraints
app.get('/post/:date{[0-9]+}/:title{[a-z]+}', (c) => {
  const { date, title } = c.req.param()
})

// Chained routes
app
  .get('/endpoint', (c) => c.text('GET'))
  .post((c) => c.text('POST'))
  .delete((c) => c.text('DELETE'))

Route Grouping

// Using route()
const api = new Hono()
api.get('/users', (c) => c.json([]))

const app = new Hono()
app.route('/api', api) // mounts at /api/users

// Using basePath()
const app = new Hono().basePath('/api')
app.get('/users', (c) => c.json([])) // GET /api/users

Error Handling

app.notFound((c) => c.json({ message: 'Not Found' }, 404))

app.onError((err, c) => {
  console.error(err)
  return c.json({ message: 'Internal Server Error' }, 500)
})

Context (c)

Response Methods

c.text('Hello') // text/plain
c.json({ message: 'Hello' }) // application/json
c.html('<h1>Hello</h1>') // text/html
c.redirect('/new-path') // 302 redirect
c.redirect('/new-path', 301) // 301 redirect
c.body('raw body', 200, headers) // raw response
c.notFound() // 404 response

Headers & Status

c.status(201)
c.header('X-Custom', 'value')
c.header('Cache-Control', 'no-store')

Variables (request-scoped data)

// In middleware
c.set('user', { id: 1, name: 'Alice' })

// In handler
const user = c.get('user')
// or
const user = c.var.user

Environment (Cloudflare Workers)

const value = await c.env.KV.get('key')
const db = c.env.DATABASE
c.executionCtx.waitUntil(promise)

Renderer

app.use(async (c, next) => {
  c.setRenderer((content) =>
    c.html(
      <html><body>{content}</body></html>
    )
  )
  await next()
})

app.get('/', (c) => c.render(<h1>Hello</h1>))

HonoRequest (c.req)

c.req.param('id') // path parameter
c.req.param() // all path params as object
c.req.query('page') // query string parameter
c.req.query() // all query params as object
c.req.queries('tags') // multiple values: ?tags=A&tags=B → ['A', 'B']
c.req.header('Authorization') // request header
c.req.header() // all headers (keys are lowercase)

// Body parsing
await c.req.json() // parse JSON body
await c.req.text() // parse text body
await c.req.formData() // parse as FormData
await c.req.parseBody() // parse multipart/form-data or urlencoded
await c.req.arrayBuffer() // parse as ArrayBuffer
await c.req.blob() // parse as Blob

// Validated data (used with validator middleware)
c.req.valid('json')
c.req.valid('query')
c.req.valid('form')
c.req.valid('param')

// Properties
c.req.url // full URL string
c.req.path // pathname
c.req.method // HTTP method
c.req.raw // underlying Request object

Middleware

Using Built-in Middleware

import { cors } from 'hono/cors'
import { logger } from 'hono/logger'
import { basicAuth } from 'hono/basic-auth'
import { prettyJSON } from 'hono/pretty-json'
import { secureHeaders } from 'hono/secure-headers'
import { etag } from 'hono/etag'
import { compress } from 'hono/compress'
import { poweredBy } from 'hono/powered-by'
import { timing } from 'hono/timing'
import { cache } from 'hono/cache'
import { bearerAuth } from 'hono/bearer-auth'
import { jwt } from 'hono/jwt'
import { csrf } from 'hono/csrf'
import { ipRestriction } from 'hono/ip-restriction'
import { bodyLimit } from 'hono/body-limit'
import { requestId } from 'hono/request-id'
import { methodOverride } from 'hono/method-override'
import { trailingSlash, trimTrailingSlash } from 'hono/trailing-slash'

// Registration
app.use(logger()) // all routes
app.use('/api/*', cors()) // specific path
app.post('/api/*', basicAuth({ username: 'admin', password: 'secret' }))

Custom Middleware

// Inline
app.use(async (c, next) => {
  const start = Date.now()
  await next()
  const elapsed = Date.now() - start
  c.res.headers.set('X-Response-Time', `${elapsed}ms`)
})

// Reusable with createMiddleware
import { createMiddleware } from 'hono/factory'

const auth = createMiddleware(async (c, next) => {
  const token = c.req.header('Authorization')
  if (!token) return c.json({ error: 'Unauthorized' }, 401)
  await next()
})

app.use('/api/*', auth)

Middleware Execution Order

Middleware executes in registration order. await next() calls the next middleware/handler, and code after next() runs on the way back:

Request → mw1 before → mw2 before → handler → mw2 after → mw1 after → Response
app.use(async (c, next) => {
  // before handler
  await next()
  // after handler
})

Validation

Validation targets: json, form, query, header, param, cookie.

Zod Validator

import { zValidator } from '@hono/zod-validator'
import { z } from 'zod'

const schema = z.object({
  title: z.string().min(1),
  body: z.string()
})

app.post('/posts', zValidator('json', schema), (c) => {
  const data = c.req.valid('json') // fully typed
  return c.json(data, 201)
})

Valibot / Standard Schema Validator

import { sValidator } from '@hono/standard-validator'
import * as v from 'valibot'

const schema = v.object({ name: v.string(), age: v.number() })

app.post('/users', sValidator('json', schema), (c) => {
  const data = c.req.valid('json')
  return c.json(data, 201)
})

JSX

Setup

In tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "jsx": "react-jsx",
    "jsxImportSource": "hono/jsx"
  }
}

Or use pragma: /** @jsxImportSource hono/jsx */

Important: Files using JSX must have a .tsx extension. Rename .ts to .tsx or the compiler will fail.

Components

import type { PropsWithChildren } from 'hono/jsx'

const Layout = (props: PropsWithChildren) => (
  <html>
    <head>
      <title>My App</title>
    </head>
    <body>{props.children}</body>
  </html>
)

const UserCard = ({ name }: { name: string }) => (
  <div class="card">
    <h2>{name}</h2>
  </div>
)

app.get('/', (c) => {
  return c.html(
    <Layout>
      <UserCard name="Alice" />
    </Layout>
  )
})

jsxRenderer Middleware