Hono.js Tutorial: REST API with Zod, JWT & Cloudflare Workers
Step-by-step Hono.js tutorial: routing, middleware, Zod validation, JWT auth, and deployment to Cloudflare Workers and Node.js. Working code throughout.
14 min readZeeshan Tofiq
2 articles
Backend API design and the HTTP layer underneath it. Coverage includes building a REST API with Hono on Cloudflare Workers, working within the constraints the Workers runtime imposes, and the HTTP QUERY method with what it means for Express and Node.js applications as it moves toward standardisation. Both articles include complete route handlers and the request and response traces that show the behaviour being described.
Step-by-step Hono.js tutorial: routing, middleware, Zod validation, JWT auth, and deployment to Cloudflare Workers and Node.js. Working code throughout.
How to actually implement the new HTTP QUERY method (RFC 10008) in Express and Node.js, with working code for a search endpoint, CORS, and a POST fallback.