Last Updated: 3/9/2026

Vercel

Vercel is the AI cloud, providing the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web.

Hono can be deployed to Vercel with zero-configuration.

1. Setup

A starter for Vercel is available. Start your project with “create-hono” command. Select vercel template for this example.

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npm create hono@latest my-app

yarn create hono my-app

pnpm create hono my-app

bun create hono@latest my-app

deno init --npm hono my-app

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Move into my-app and install the dependencies.

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cd my-app
npm i

cd my-app
yarn

cd my-app
pnpm i

cd my-app
bun i

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We will use Vercel CLI to work on the app locally in the next step. If you haven’t already, install it globally following the Vercel CLI documentation .

2. Hello World

In the index.ts or src/index.ts of your project, export the Hono application as a default export.

import { Hono } from 'hono'
 
const app = new Hono()
 
const welcomeStrings = [
  'Hello Hono!',
  'To learn more about Hono on Vercel, visit https://vercel.com/docs/frameworks/backend/hono',
]
 
app.get('/', (c) => {
  return c.text(welcomeStrings.join('\n\n'))
})
 
export default app

If you started with the vercel template, this is already set up for you.

3. Run

To run the development server locally:

vercel dev

Visiting localhost:3000 will respond with a text response.

4. Deploy

Deploy to Vercel using vc deploy.

vercel deploy

Further reading

Learn more about Hono in the Vercel documentation .