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Hono vs Fastify: GitHub, npm & hiring signals

A live, signal-by-signal comparison of Hono and Fastify — GitHub stars, npm downloads, and how many of the 27 public signal sources Sigmon can track for each. Numbers below are detected right now.

Hono

honojs

Top-repo stars
30.9k
npm/wk
44.5M
Trackable sources
27/27
Domain
hono.dev
Full Hono signal breakdown

Fastify

fastify

Top-repo stars
36.5k
npm/wk
4.3M
Trackable sources
27/27
Domain
fastify.dev

Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

Full Fastify signal breakdown

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