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Routing

Last Updated: 3/7/2026

Routing

Routing of Hono is flexible and intuitive. Let’s take a look.

Basic

// HTTP Methods
app.get('/', (c) => c.text('GET /'))
app.post('/', (c) => c.text('POST /'))
app.put('/', (c) => c.text('PUT /'))
app.delete('/', (c) => c.text('DELETE /'))
 
// Wildcard
app.get('/wild/*/card', (c) => {
  return c.text('GET /wild/*/card')
})
 
// Any HTTP methods
app.all('/hello', (c) => c.text('Any Method /hello'))
 
// Custom HTTP method
app.on('PURGE', '/cache', (c) => c.text('PURGE Method /cache'))
 
// Multiple Method
app.on(['PUT', 'DELETE'], '/post', (c) =>
  c.text('PUT or DELETE /post')
)
 
// Multiple Paths
app.on('GET', ['/hello', '/ja/hello', '/en/hello'], (c) =>
  c.text('Hello')
)

Path Parameter

app.get('/user/:name', async (c) => {
  const name = c.req.param('name')
  // ...
})

or all parameters at once:

app.get('/posts/:id/comment/:comment_id', async (c) => {
  const { id, comment_id } = c.req.param()
  // ...
})

Optional Parameter

// Will match `/api/animal` and `/api/animal/:type`
app.get('/api/animal/:type?', (c) => c.text('Animal!'))

Regexp

app.get('/post/:date{[0-9]+}/:title{[a-z]+}', async (c) => {
  const { date, title } = c.req.param()
  // ...
})

Including slashes

app.get('/posts/:filename{.+\\.png}', async (c) => {
  //...
})

Chained route

app
  .get('/endpoint', (c) => {
    return c.text('GET /endpoint')
  })
  .post((c) => {
    return c.text('POST /endpoint')
  })
  .delete((c) => {
    return c.text('DELETE /endpoint')
  })

Grouping

You can group the routes with the Hono instance and add them to the main app with the route method.

const book = new Hono()
 
book.get('/', (c) => c.text('List Books')) // GET /book
book.get('/:id', (c) => {
  // GET /book/:id
  const id = c.req.param('id')
  return c.text('Get Book: ' + id)
})
book.post('/', (c) => c.text('Create Book')) // POST /book
 
const app = new Hono()
app.route('/book', book)

Grouping without changing base

You can also group multiple instances while keeping base.

const book = new Hono()
book.get('/book', (c) => c.text('List Books')) // GET /book
book.post('/book', (c) => c.text('Create Book')) // POST /book
 
const user = new Hono().basePath('/user')
user.get('/', (c) => c.text('List Users')) // GET /user
user.post('/', (c) => c.text('Create User')) // POST /user
 
const app = new Hono()
app.route('/', book) // Handle /book
app.route('/', user) // Handle /user

Base path

You can specify the base path.

const api = new Hono().basePath('/api')
api.get('/book', (c) => c.text('List Books')) // GET /api/book

Routing with hostname

It works fine if it includes a hostname.

const app = new Hono({
  getPath: (req) => req.url.replace(/^https?:\/\/([^?]+).*$/, '$1'),
})
 
app.get('/www1.example.com/hello', (c) => c.text('hello www1'))
app.get('/www2.example.com/hello', (c) => c.text('hello www2'))

Routing with host Header value

Hono can handle the host header value if you set the getPath() function in the Hono constructor.

const app = new Hono({
  getPath: (req) =>
    '/' +
    req.headers.get('host') +
    req.url.replace(/^https?:\/\/[^/]+(\/[^?]*).*/, '$1'),
})
 
app.get('/www1.example.com/hello', (c) => c.text('hello www1'))
 
// A following request will match the route:
// new Request('http://www1.example.com/hello', {
//   headers: { host: 'www1.example.com' },
// })

By applying this, for example, you can change the routing by User-Agent header.

Routing priority

Handlers or middleware will be executed in registration order.

app.get('/book/a', (c) => c.text('a')) // a
app.get('/book/:slug', (c) => c.text('common')) // common
GET /book/a ---> `a`
GET /book/b ---> `common`

When a handler is executed, the process will be stopped.

app.get('*', (c) => c.text('common')) // common
app.get('/foo', (c) => c.text('foo')) // foo
GET /foo ---> `common` // foo will not be dispatched

If you have the middleware that you want to execute, write the code above the handler.

app.use(logger())
app.get('/foo', (c) => c.text('foo'))

If you want to have a “fallback” handler, write the code below the other handler.

app.get('/bar', (c) => c.text('bar')) // bar
app.get('*', (c) => c.text('fallback')) // fallback
GET /bar ---> `bar`
GET /foo ---> `fallback`

Grouping ordering

Note that the mistake of grouping routings is hard to notice. The route() function takes the stored routing from the second argument (such as three or two) and adds it to its own (two or app) routing.

three.get('/hi', (c) => c.text('hi'))
two.route('/three', three)
app.route('/two', two)
 
export default app

It will return 200 response.

GET /two/three/hi ---> `hi`

However, if they are in the wrong order, it will return a 404.

three.get('/hi', (c) => c.text('hi'))
 
app.route('/two', two) // `two` does not have routes
two.route('/three', three)
 
export default app
GET /two/three/hi ---> 404 Not Found
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