alt Hacker NewsI think you might want to elaborate on why this stack is good.
Right now it’s summarized as “typesafe fullstack monorepo”… But that’s so dense, it’s practically just three buzzwords together. A more realistic description of the pros and cons would be welcome.
I’ve never heard of Hono, and I’d personally need a lot more convincing to pick an unknown framework for a new app.
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Not a dev, but I know what these are. Maybe the post was meant for people that know. Bun / deno new nodejs. Hono new koa new express. Vite new webpack. React still React but most popular.
I appreciate the feedback! This stack does kinda assume you already know what Hono is but I can definitely flesh it out a bit more, and perhaps show some code to demonstrate it.
Hono is pretty good js a runtime agnostic router. On their site:
Works on Cloudflare, Fastly, Deno, Bun, AWS, or Node.js. The same code runs on all platforms.
How does compare to ultrajs? Or just use hono client side jsx, its pretty much like react already.
Agreed - I have no idea what this stack is good for, or how it competes against other full-stack efforts. Would love to know more!
Koa was next gen Express when TJ Hollowaychuk made it. Used first class promises to have real middleware like “response = await next()”
Hono is basically next gen Koa: zero dependencies and made to work in additional contexts like in CloudFlare Workers.
- Express deps: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=express (lol)
- Hono deps: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=hono
Node web servers are all so similar (you write ~identical code no matter which one you use) that tie-breaking on a dep diff this big is reasonable.