The Stack Behind a 500-Line Webhook Debugger: Hono + SQLite
2026-07-22
#engineering, #opensource
Why Not Express?
Hono is 20x faster, 14KB, runs everywhere, full TypeScript inference.
Why better-sqlite3 Instead of Postgres
Zero infrastructure, synchronous API, WAL mode, automatic cleanup.
The Architecture
Three routes: create bin, capture request, view dashboard.
The entire server is ~500 lines of TypeScript in a single file.