🌟[Proposal] Migrate frontend SSR from Express to Hono for serverless/edge support

[fuzc4t4-v2]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The current frontend SSR is tied to Express, which works fine for Docker but locks the project into a Node.js runtime. This makes it impossible to deploy the frontend to serverless or edge platforms like Cloudflare Workers.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to propose migrating frontend/server.js from Express to Hono.

Since Hono uses Web Standard Request/Response objects (matching what React Router v7 expects), it would allow the frontend to run on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, or Bun, while keeping full backward compatibility for existing Docker/Node.js users via @hono/node-server.

Additional context
I’ve already looked into the implementation and it's a pretty straightforward swap for the server wrapper. I'm happy to do the work and open a PR if the team is interested in adding more deployment options.

[daveearley]

Thanks for the suggesiton, @fuzc4t4-v2.

I wouldn't be opposed to this. The existing createFetchRequest conversion in entry.server.tsx isn't the prettiest, and it looks like introducing Hono would allow us to ditch that.

If it works and opens the door to more platforms, I'd be open to it. Seems like a pretty low-lift change overall. Happy to review a PR if you want to take a crack at it.

[fuzc4t4-v2]

Thanks for the suggesiton, @fuzc4t4-v2.

I wouldn't be opposed to this. The existing createFetchRequest conversion in entry.server.tsx isn't the prettiest, and it looks like introducing Hono would allow us to ditch that.

If it works and opens the door to more platforms, I'd be open to it. Seems like a pretty low-lift change overall. Happy to review a PR if you want to take a crack at it.

Glad to hear you're up for it! Right now I made a quick trick to deploy to Cloudflare Workers here: https://github.com/plainwebs/plainevents/tree/feature/cloudflare-workers-csr. I will be working on migration from Express to Hono and I will make a pull request as soon as I have it ready.