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8## Hono
9
10This app uses [Hono](https://hono.dev/) as the API framework. You can think of Hono as a replacement for [ExpressJS](https://expressjs.com/) that works in serverless environments like Val Town or Cloudflare Workers. If you come from Python or Ruby, Hono is also a lot like [Flask](https://github.com/pallets/flask) or [Sinatra](https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra), respectively.
11
12## Serving assets to the frontend
20### `index.html`
21
22The most complicated part of this backend API is serving index.html. In this app (like most apps) we serve it at the root, ie `GET /`. 
23
24We *bootstrap* `index.html` with some initial data from the server, so that it gets dynamically injected JSON data without having to make another round-trip request to the server to get that data on the frontend. This is a common pattern for client-side rendered apps.
25
26## CRUD API Routes
27
28This app has two CRUD API routes: for reading and inserting into the messages table. They both speak JSON, which is standard. They import their functions from `/backend/database/queries.ts`. These routes are called from the React app to refresh and update data.
29
30## Errors
31
32Hono and other API frameworks have a habit of swallowing up Errors. We turn off this default behavior by re-throwing errors, because we think most of the time you'll want to see the full stack trace instead of merely "Internal Server Error". You can customize how you want errors to appear.

8import { type Memory } from "../../shared/types.ts";
9
10const API_BASE = "/api/memories";
11const MEMORIES_PER_PAGE = 20;
12
71    setError(null);
72    try {
73      const response = await fetch(API_BASE);
74      if (!response.ok) {
75        throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
100
101    try {
102      const response = await fetch(API_BASE, {
103        method: "POST",
104        headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
123
124    try {
125      const response = await fetch(`${API_BASE}/${id}`, {
126        method: "DELETE",
127      });
155
156    try {
157      const response = await fetch(`${API_BASE}/${editingMemory.id}`, {
158        method: "PUT",
159        headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },