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Anyone reaching for Express instead of Hono for small projects these days? Did we all switch to Hono as the default?

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In my head I did but every time I reach for it I think I might need some ui so I abuse remix instead.

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I wouldn't use express again though. Last company I was at used it everywhere and its too annoying with typescript. For a pure api i'd reach for hono and fallback to fastify if it didn't work.

Same, but Next.js. Working on something truly headless right now, though. And I really gotta drop Next.js in 2025 haha

It’s funny because Hono has JSX support built in as far as I remember. It’s why guys who built Frog used it as a base

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Ya but not react and all the other meta framework bits.

Good if you want to do mostly templates, type safe with some nice dx though. Which is what frog/frames require.

It’s funny because Hono has JSX support built in as far as I remember. It’s why guys who built Frog used it as a base

https://hono.dev/docs/guides/jsx