Automate type-safe Hono API construction with routing, validation, and error handling.
npx skills add https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills --skill hono-routing
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: hono-routing Source: https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills/tree/main/skills/hono-routing Command: npx skills add https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills --skill hono-routing
This Skill eliminates the complexity of setting up Hono APIs with proper routing, validation, and type safety, preventing common development errors and saving significant setup time.
Create a new Hono app with a GET route that returns JSON data, then add validation middleware to ensure type safety.
Create a Hono API with a POST /users endpoint that validates the request body using Zod.
Build a Hono API with a GET /users route that returns a JSON response with user data.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
Type-safe APIs in Hono combine structured routing with validators like Zod or Valibot to enforce schema validation on request bodies, query parameters, and route parameters. This prevents runtime errors and ensures client-server type alignment automatically during development.
Yes, Hono routing patterns—including params, queries, wildcards, and route grouping—work across all four runtimes. Choose your runtime based on deployment needs; the routing and validation logic remains consistent.
Use HTTPException-based error handling with onError hooks to catch and format errors consistently. This approach integrates seamlessly with Hono's middleware chain and preserves type information across the error flow.
Middleware composition in Hono chains handlers sequentially; use c.set and c.get to pass typed context between middleware and route handlers. This enables authentication, logging, and state management without breaking type safety.
Yes, export specific routes and use RPC client/server patterns to generate fully typed clients from server route definitions. This eliminates manual type duplication and enables fast, type-checked remote procedure calls.
TypeScript is strongly recommended because type safety is the core benefit. Plain JavaScript works but sacrifices validation and IDE autocompletion; TypeScript unlocks compile-time error detection and route inference.
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