It’s HONC Day 2k24!
Today we’re excited to announce several new features and tools that make building with HONC even better. Let’s take a gander at what’s new.
Introducing Hatch: AI-Powered HONC App Generation
If you’re feeling adventurous, you can now let AI generate a HONC app for you, according to a short description.
Just add the --hatch flag to the create-honc-app command:
npm create honc-app@latest -- --hatchAnd you’ll be prompted to describe what you want to build:
After that, you go through the normal create-honc-app flow,
and your template files will be modified to scaffold an api according to your description.
Adding Client-Side Interactivity to Your HONC Apps
Fiberplane’s Oscar van Zijverden put together a guide on client-side hydration for Hono apps, which shows how to add components that go beyond the basic SSR functionality of hono/jsx.
This one’s worthy of its own separate post on the blog! Check it out here:
Placegoose: A Goosier Take on JSON Placeholder
Sometimes you just need some honkin’ data, and that’s where placegoose comes in. It’s like JSON Placeholder, but with geese.
The code is open source, and it demonstrates some advanced patterns for building an api with Hono/HONC. Placegoose is a great reference for modeling more complex data relationships with Drizzle, separating out resources into different routers, and implementing request validation with centralized error handling.
Drizzle Seed Support in create-honc-app
A few short weeks ago, Drizzle announced support for seeding databases with fake data.
Today, we’ve integrated that support into create-honc-app.
Say goodbye to our hackadoo seed scripts that always yielded the same 3 elements in your database in the HONC templates, and hello to the power of Drizzle’s seed command. It uses a pseudorandom number generator and their dataset to use consistent but diverse fake data, which is a fancy word for “same same but different” - you can read more about drizzle-seed in their documentation.
What’s Next?
You tell us! Did anything from this barrage of new HONC launches catch your eye?
Hop in our Discord and let us know what you want to see next.
A few things on our radar:
- SSR components for
hono/jsx(already in the works) - A Web UI to generate new HONC apps with AI
- Guides to writing external APIs with Hono/HONC
That’s a wrap
HONC Day 2k24 is in the books! This is our capstone for Mega Launch Week.
If you missed any of our other launches this week, check them out here: