Hono Overview

Hono works well when you want one routing style across multiple runtimes.

Project shape

import { Hono } from 'hono';
import { initClient } from '@wacht/backend';
import { authMiddleware } from './middleware/auth';
import { adminRoutes } from './routes/admin';

initClient({ apiKey: process.env.WACHT_API_KEY! });

const app = new Hono();
app.use('/admin/*', authMiddleware);
app.route('/admin', adminRoutes);

export default app;

Runtime and framework fit

• c.req.raw exposes a standard Request, which maps directly to authenticateRequest().
• The same middleware pattern can be reused on Cloudflare-style deploy targets.
• Hono can host both JWT/session-protected user routes and API key/OAuth protected machine routes in one app.