Overview
Learn how to use the API layer of your supastarter application.
supastarter is designed to be a scalable and production-ready fullstack starter kit. One of the core features is a dedicated and extendable API layer. To enable this in a type-safe manner, we chose Hono as the server framework, in combination with oRPC to call the API from the frontend and Tanstack Query to query the API.
Why Hono
Hono is a modern and minimalistic web framework for TypeScript and JavaScript. It is designed to be simple, fast and easy to use. It is also designed to be very flexible and easy to extend. You can deploy it almost anywhere and use it in a type-safe manner with the Hono RPC client. It is also capable of generating an OpenAPI documenation automatically for you API.
Why oRPC
oRPC is a library that helps you to call backend functions from the frontend in a type-safe way. It's similar to tRPC, but is based on the OpenAPI standard and gives you a few more advanced capabilities.
Why combine Hono and oRPC
Hono is a great server framework, but it's RPC client is not as powerful and doesn't offer the same developer experience as oRPC. Combining the two gives you a very powerful and flexible API layer with a great developer experience for both RPC and OpenAPI.
All API logic is defined in the /packages/api/ package.
Learn more about the API in these different guides: