Hono OpenAPI Starter Template

This is a starter template for building production-grade applications using Hono, OpenAPI, and Drizzle.

Features

• Structured logging
• Documented type-safe routes
• Interactive API documentation
• Docker setup
• Type-safe schemas and environment variables
• Single source of truth database schemas
• Database migrations and seeders
• Testing
• Linting and formatting rules
• Health checks
• CI/CD pipeline
• Metrics
• Error tracking
• Debugging

Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Hono
• Drizzle
• Postgres
• TypeScript
• Docker
• Scalar
• pino
• zod
• Vitest
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Dozzle

Getting Started

Create .env file:

cp .env.example .env

Install dependencies:

pnpm install

Run DB server and push the schema:

pnpm dev:docker
pnpm db:push

Running Locally

Run the app:

pnpm dev

You can now access API documentation at http://localhost:4000/reference.