Building a Custom React Router SSR Server With Hono
If you're running a React Router app in framework mode, you get SSR out of the box and for production it hands you @react-router/serve, a small server built on top of Express. While it does the job, Express carries a bit of history (and weight) with it, so if you're the kind of person who wants a leaner server, or just more control over what happens around your app, there's a really nice alternative that drops in with almost no glue.
Hono (and its Node server)
The createRequestHandler from react-router gives you a function that takes a standard web Request and resolves to a standard web Response, that's the whole contract. It doesn't care about Node, Express, or any particular server, it just wants a Request and it'll give you back a Response.
Honois built on those exact same web standards and, inside its handler, context.req.raw is already a...
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