Hono.js on Cloudflare Workers: Typed APIs That Actually Run at the Edge

I've been running Express-style Node servers for years. They work. They're familiar. And for most projects I've touched, they're also overkill — a whole VM babysitting a few hundred requests per day. Last quarter we moved our AI agent webhook layer to Hono on Cloudflare Workers. Here's what that actually looks like in production, where it breaks down, and what I'd do differently. What Hono is Hono is a fast, lightweight web framework that targets multiple runtimes: Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun,