Web Framework Bench

For web frameworks on Node, on Deno, and on Bun.

Fast is not everything, but fast is everything.

Motivation

There are some benchmark projects for JavaScript web frameworks, but none of them satisfy me. Because one is just measuring "Hello World" and another is for routing. I think we need to measure both "Hello World" and routing and the handling of Responses and Requests.

In this sense, SaltyAom's benchmarks are good. However I wanted to add to that the Deno and Node frameworks. I also thought we should use more complex routing.

Above all, I wanted to make sure that Hono I'm making is fast.

Frameworks

Which frameworks used for this benchmarks, see frameworks.js

End-points

• GET / - Just returns "Bench" as plain text.
• GET /posts/123/comments?query=foo - Handles to get path parameters and query parameters, and add x-powered-by to Response headers.
• POST /posts - Returns the received JSON string into an object, again into a string.

In addition to the above, the following routing is added:

export const routes = [
  { path: '/top', text: 'Top' },
  { path: '/about', text: 'About' },
  { path: '/about/maps', text: 'About Maps' },
  { path: '/about/contact', text: 'About Contact' },
  { path: '/authors', text: 'Authors' },
  { path: '/authors/:name', text: 'Author Name' },
  { path: '/posts', text: 'Posts' },
  { path: '/posts/:id', text: 'Posts Permalink' },
  { path: '/posts/:id/comments/:commentId', text: 'Posts Comment Permalink' },
]

Prerequisites

• oha
• Node.js
• Deno
• Bun

You should use Deno and Bun as latest possible. For Bun, to upgrade as latest canary release, run the below:

bun upgrade --canary

Run

yarn install
yarn start

It is possible that the version of the framework has been upgraded. If you want to bump up the framework version, run this:

yarn add hono

Results

See the results in the generated results/results.md.

Related Projects

• SaltyAom/bun-http-framework-benchmark - Heavily inspired.
• delvedor/router-benchmark - Node routing benchmarks.
• denosaurs/bench - Deno framework benchmarks.

Author

Yusuke Wada https://github.com/yusukebe

License

MIT