Discussion: hono.use

The current handler and middleware design of Hono is great, and I am thinking the possibility to make it a little simpler and cleaner.

• Make the handler and middleware one the same thing, and both apply by hono.use

const middleware = async (ctx, next) => {
   // middleware functionality code
   await  next()
}

const handler = async (ctx) => {
   ctx.body = 'hello world'
}

Then we can apply them with chained style,

new Hono().use(middleware).use(handler)

or compose style,

new Hono().use(middleware, handler)

• Router acts routing responsibility

Hono’s routers (TrieRouter and RegExpRouter) are so cool with high performance as we see in Hono currently, to better support hono.use mentioned above, we can extend it a little bit to be like,

const router = new TrieRouter()
router
    .get('/', (ctx) => ctx.body = 'ok')
    .post('/', (ctx) => ctx.body = {'status': 'created'})
    ...

Then Hono can just apply it likem

hono.use(router.routes())

Does this sound like an idea worth discussing?

[usualoma]

I agreed. Please wait a few days.

[metrue]

@yusukebe @usualoma It’s great we had a very long and meaningful discussion here!!!