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title: "I Stopped Using Express.js: Because Bun and Hono 🔥"
date: "2023-12-28T15:00:43Z"
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description: "Express has been around for almost as long as node has existed. It’s an awesome framework, it’s how I learned to make web servers in node and how i’ve been teaching people to make web servers for the past 8 years. "
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Express has been around for almost as long as node has existed. It’s an awesome framework, it’s how I learned to make web servers in node and how i’ve been teaching people to make web servers for the past 8 years. 

But it’s time to move on, because the alternatives are just so much better. It’s mind blowing how much the web has changed recently.

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## Chapters:

* 0:00​ Hono
* 0:42 Bun Server
* 1:52 Routing
* 3:33 Streaming
* 4:18 Middleware
* 4:50 JSX
* 6:32 Testing
* 8:21 Validation