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Package Health Score

91 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Sustainable
community
Active

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

All Versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
4.11.4	\|	01/2026		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.11.3	\|	12/2025	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.10.8	\|	12/2025		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
3.12.12	\|	02/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.7.8	\|	02/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

Weekly Downloads (9,324,212)

GitHub Stars: 28.18K
Forks: 891
Contributors: 280

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package hono receives a total of 9,324,212 downloads a week. As such, we scored hono popularity level to be Key ecosystem project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package hono, we found that it has been starred 28,185 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 280
Funding: Yes

A good and healthy external contribution signal for hono project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 268
Open PR: 74
Last Release: 11 hours ago
Last Commit: 11 hours ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of hono based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that hono demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=16.9.0

Age: 4 years
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 401
Install Size: 1.25 MB
Dist-tags: 3
# of Files: 550
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

hono has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Readme

Hono - means flame🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.

Fast, but not only fast.

import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()

app.get('/', (c) =&gt; c.text('Hono!'))

export default app

Quick Start

npm create hono@latest

Features

Ultrafast 🚀 - The router RegExpRouter is really fast. Not using linear loops. Fast.
Lightweight 🪶 - The hono/tiny preset is under 12kB. Hono has zero dependencies and uses only the Web Standard API.
Multi-runtime 🌍 - Works on Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, or Node.js. The same code runs on all platforms.
Batteries Included 🔋 - Hono has built-in middleware, custom middleware, and third-party middleware. Batteries included.
Delightful DX 😃 - Super clean APIs. First-class TypeScript support. Now, we've got "Types".

Documentation

The documentation is available on hono.dev.

Migration

The migration guide is available on docs/MIGRATION.md.

Communication

X and Discord channel are available.

Contributing

Contributions Welcome! You can contribute in the following ways.

Create an Issue - Propose a new feature. Report a bug.
Pull Request - Fix a bug or typo. Refactor the code.
Create third-party middleware - See instructions below.
Share - Share your thoughts on the Blog, X, and others.
Make your application - Please try to use Hono.

For more details, see docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contributors

Thanks to all contributors!

Authors

Yusuke Wada

RegExpRouter, SmartRouter, LinearRouter, and PatternRouter are created by Taku Amano

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

FAQs

What is hono?

Web framework built on Web Standards. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for hono, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is hono popular?

The npm package hono receives a total of 9,324,212 weekly downloads. As such, hono popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is hono well maintained?

We found indications that hono maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 280 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is hono safe to use?

The npm package hono was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 13 January-2026, at 06:40 (UTC).

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