A minimal HTTP framework. No magic.

Every request has a path.

Hectoday HTTP chooses clarity over convenience.
Inbound request. Outbound response.
Nothing hidden. Nothing assumed.
Start here. The rest follows.

Install

npm install @hectoday/http

Why

Most frameworks abstract HTTP away. @hectoday/http does the opposite.

You work directly with Request, Response, headers, status codes and routing. So you actually learn how the web works, not just how to use a framework.

Example

import { route, setup } from "@hectoday/http";

const app = setup({
  handlers: [
    route.get("/", {
      resolve: () => new Response("Hello HTTP"),
    }),
  ],
});

Deno.serve(app.fetch);

No wrappers. No custom response objects. Just HTTP.

Principles

• Web standards first — Built on the Fetch API
• Explicit control flow — You decide what happens
• Minimal surface area — Small API, easy to reason about
• Education-first — Clarity over convenience

Good for

• Learning HTTP properly
• Teaching web fundamentals
• Understanding request lifecycles
• Building APIs

Learn the protocol. Then build the abstractions.