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.
- Skill ID
- yusukebe/hono-skill/hono
- Publisher
- yusukebe
- Repository
- hono-skill
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- Files
- 1
- 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/usersHono 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 methodsRouting 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/usersError 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 responseHeaders & 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.userEnvironment (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 objectMiddleware
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 → Responseapp.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>
)
})