helmet VS hono

Helmet is an npm package that includes middleware to handle and filter out malicious request headers (exploiting XSS vulnerabilities or clickjacking, for example). You can utilize Helmet's default configuration or customize it based on your needs following the instructions provided here.

helmet

By default, NuxtSecurity will set security response headers to match the values recommended by OWASP and a popular Express.js middleware called helmet.

Utilize security headers and middleware to add another layer of security to your Node.js application. Tools like Helmet.js can help you set secure HTTP headers, while middleware can assist in filtering and sanitizing user inputs.

Documentation Link: helmet

Helmet helps “sanitise” the input, which might not have come from the UI directly. Mongoose is what is known as an Object Document Modelling (ODM), which defines a structure (schema) for the stored data, making it easier to manage in Express. These additions have been omitted from our example stack purely to simplify the tutorial and focus on the fundamental tiers and interfaces.

If you can repro the issue with a minimal tsconfig, with nothing but an import statement then it's probably something the maintainers of helmet would like to see. There's also this (recent) issue I saw looking at their queue -- maybe related? https://github.com/helmetjs/helmet/issues/424 ...

// Security // https://helmetjs.github.io/ app.use(helmet())

You can learn more about each header and how to configure them in the Helmet documentation.

These days I only use middleware if it's global and has no outputs. Helmet comes to mind.

I used hono to implement worker.

Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges

Hono is an ultrafast web framework for the edge and it's amazing. It's simple as express and the DX is mind-blowing. And now you can also serve JSX with it 🤯. Anyone in the industry for long enough knows that a setup like this can be quite tedious to manage and maintain. I might sound biased for Hono, and that's true, I love it ❤️.

Please could a fellow HNer who has experience using this explain in simple terms what Hono on a Cloudflare Worker enables that one cannot already do with a vanilla worker?

The docs[0] are not instructive on this point.

[0] https://hono.dev

Hono, a powerful framework, is our secret sauce for crafting high-performance APIs. With its intuitive syntax and seamless integration with Next.js, Hono simplifies the process of optimizing API performance.

Hono—a simple and fast framework for processing HTTP requests.

A good alternative of this can be - [Hono]https://hono.dev/

I agree that “fast, lightweight, web standards” isn’t much of a description but not too far down https://github.com/honojs/hono I did this:

> Hono … is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.

Hono offers good DX and a blazingly fast library to help you build your backend with native RPC embedded in its code. It has Zod support and it's written with TypeScript with very readable types so you can understand what's happening. It also supports Bun and a bunch of runtimes so you can run it everywhere. Check the documentation! It's also very helpful.

Initialize your hono project using bun: