Benchmarks are only benchmarks, but they are important to us.

Routers ​

We measured the speeds of a bunch of JavaScript routers. For example, find-my-way is a very fast router used inside Fastify.

• @medley/router
• find-my-way
• koa-tree-router
• trek-router
• express (includes handling)
• koa-router

First, we registered the following routing to each of our routers. These are similar to those used in the real world.

ts

export const routes: Route[] = [
  { method: 'GET', path: '/user' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/user/comments' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/user/avatar' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/user/lookup/username/:username' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/user/lookup/email/:address' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/event/:id' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/event/:id/comments' },
  { method: 'POST', path: '/event/:id/comment' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/map/:location/events' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/status' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/very/deeply/nested/route/hello/there' },
  { method: 'GET', path: '/static/*' },
]

Then we sent the Request to the endpoints like below.

ts

const routes: (Route & { name: string })[] = [
  {
    name: 'short static',
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/user',
  },
  {
    name: 'static with same radix',
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/user/comments',
  },
  {
    name: 'dynamic route',
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/user/lookup/username/hey',
  },
  {
    name: 'mixed static dynamic',
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/event/abcd1234/comments',
  },
  {
    name: 'post',
    method: 'POST',
    path: '/event/abcd1234/comment',
  },
  {
    name: 'long static',
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/very/deeply/nested/route/hello/there',
  },
  {
    name: 'wildcard',
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/static/index.html',
  },
]

Let's see the results.

On Node.js ​

The following screenshots show the results on Node.js.

On Bun ​

The following screenshots show the results on Bun.

Cloudflare Workers ​

Hono is the fastest, compared to other routers for Cloudflare Workers.

• Machine: Apple MacBook Pro, 32 GiB, M1 Pro
• Scripts: benchmarks/handle-event

Hono x 402,820 ops/sec ±4.78% (80 runs sampled)
itty-router x 212,598 ops/sec ±3.11% (87 runs sampled)
sunder x 297,036 ops/sec ±4.76% (77 runs sampled)
worktop x 197,345 ops/sec ±2.40% (88 runs sampled)
Fastest is Hono
✨  Done in 28.06s.

Deno ​

Hono is the fastest, compared to other frameworks for Deno.

• Machine: Apple MacBook Pro, 32 GiB, M1 Pro, Deno v1.22.0
• Scripts: benchmarks/deno
• Method: bombardier --fasthttp -d 10s -c 100 'http://localhost:8000/user/lookup/username/foo'

Framework

Version

Results

Hono

3.0.0

Requests/sec: 136112

Fast

4.0.0-beta.1

Requests/sec: 103214

Megalo

0.3.0

Requests/sec: 64597

Faster

5.7

Requests/sec: 54801

oak

10.5.1

Requests/sec: 43326

opine

2.2.0

Requests/sec: 30700

Another benchmark result: denosaurs/bench

Bun ​

Hono is one of the fastest frameworks for Bun. You can see it below.

• SaltyAom/bun-http-framework-benchmark