Basic Hello World in Hono

From the Hono cheat sheet · Getting Started · verified Jul 2026

Create your first Hono application

typescript

import { Hono } from 'hono'

const app = new Hono()

app.get('/', (c) => {
  return c.text('Hello Hono!')
})

export default app

💡 The context object "c" provides all request/response utilities

⚡ c.text(), c.json(), c.html() - common response helpers

📌 Export default for Cloudflare Workers and Bun

🎯 Hono uses Web Standard Request/Response APIs

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