Vercel

Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. This section introduces Next.js running on Vercel.

Next.js is a flexible React framework that gives you building blocks to create fast web applications.

In Next.js, Edge Functions allows you to create dynamic APIs on Edge Runtime such as Vercel. With Hono, you can write APIs with the same syntax as other runtimes and use many middleware.

1. Setup

A starter for Next.js is available. Start your project with "create-hono" command. Select nextjs template for this example.

npm

npm create hono@latest my-app

yarn

yarn create hono my-app

pnpm

pnpm create hono my-app

bun

bun create hono@latest my-app

deno

deno init --npm hono my-app

Move into my-app and install the dependencies.

npm

cd my-app
npm i

yarn

cd my-app
yarn

pnpm

cd my-app
pnpm i

bun

cd my-app
bun i

2. Hello World

If you use the App Router, Edit app/api/[[...route]]/route.ts. Refer to the Supported HTTP Methods section for more options.

import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { handle } from 'hono/vercel'

export const runtime = 'edge'

const app = new Hono().basePath('/api')

app.get('/hello', (c) => {
  return c.json({
    message: 'Hello Next.js!',
  })
})

export const GET = handle(app)
export const POST = handle(app)

If you use the Pages Router, Edit pages/api/[[...route]].ts.

import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { handle } from 'hono/vercel'
import type { PageConfig } from 'next'

export const config: PageConfig = {
  runtime: 'edge',
}

const app = new Hono().basePath('/api')

app.get('/hello', (c) => {
  return c.json({
    message: 'Hello Next.js!',
  })
})

export default handle(app)

3. Run

Run the development server locally. Then, access http://localhost:3000 in your Web browser.

npm

npm run dev

yarn

yarn dev

pnpm

pnpm dev

bun

bun run dev

Now, /api/hello just returns JSON, but if you build React UIs, you can create a full-stack application with Hono.

4. Deploy

If you have a Vercel account, you can deploy by linking the Git repository.

Node.js

You can also run Hono on Next.js running on the Node.js runtime.

App Router

For the App Router, you can simply set the runtime to nodejs in your route handler:

import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { handle } from 'hono/vercel'

export const runtime = 'nodejs'

const app = new Hono().basePath('/api')

app.get('/hello', (c) => {
  return c.json({
    message: 'Hello from Hono!',
  })
})

export const GET = handle(app)
export const POST = handle(app)

Pages Router

For the Pages Router, you'll need to install the Node.js adapter first:

npm

npm i @hono/node-server

yarn

yarn add @hono/node-server

pnpm

pnpm add @hono/node-server

bun

bun add @hono/node-server

Then, you can utilize the handle function imported from @hono/node-server/vercel:

import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { handle } from '@hono/node-server/vercel'
import type { PageConfig } from 'next'

export const config: PageConfig = {
  api: {
    bodyParser: false,
  },
}

const app = new Hono().basePath('/api')

app.get('/hello', (c) => {
  return c.json({
    message: 'Hello from Hono!',
  })
})

export default handle(app)

In order for this to work with the Pages Router, it's important to disable Vercel Node.js helpers by setting up an environment variable in your project dashboard or in your .env file:

NODEJS_HELPERS=0