# Deploy Hono backends with zero configuration

**Published:** August 1, 2025 | **Authors:** Jeff See

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Vercel now natively supports [Hono](https://hono.dev/), a fast, lightweight backend framework built on web standards, with zero-configuration.

**index.ts**
```javascript
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()
app.get('/', (c) => {
  return c.text("Hello Hono!"))
})
export default app
```

With the code above, use [Vercel CLI](https://vercel.com/docs/cli) to develop and deploy your Hono application:

**Terminal**
```bash
# Develop the application locally
vc dev

# Create a deployment
vc deploy
```

With this improved integration, Vercel's framework-defined infrastructure now recognizes and deeply understands Hono applications, ensuring they benefit from optimizations made from builds, deployments, and application delivery.

Now, new Hono applications deployed to Vercel benefit from [Fluid compute](https://vercel.com/docs/fluid-compute), with Active CPU pricing, automatic cold start optimizations, background processing, and much more.

[Deploy Hono on Vercel](https://vercel.com/new/clone?demo-description=Deploying%20an%20API%20on%20Vercel%20with%20Hono.&demo-image=%2F%2Fimages.ctfassets.net%2Fe5382hct74si%2FCYbcj30ZJhtGhg8JnR2Jm%2Fc2d3920a1878f356401b50593c1bc647%2FGeist_OG_Light.avif&demo-title=Hono%20on%20Vercel&demo-url=https%3A%2F%2Fhono.vercel.dev&from=templates&project-name=Hono%20on%20Vercel&repository-name=hono-on-vercel&repository-url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvercel%2Fexamples%2Ftree%2Fmain%2Fframework-boilerplates%2Fhono&skippable-integrations=1) or [visit Hono's Vercel documentation](https://vercel.com/docs/frameworks/backend/hono).

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