An uncaught Hono handler error becomes a bare 500 unless app.onError is registered
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:33.773Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:33.773Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Hono catches exceptions thrown in handlers and middleware. An HTTPException produces the status and response it carries, while any other error produces a 500. Registering app.onError provides one place to log the failure and shape a consistent response body, and it receives both the error and the context so it can distinguish an intentional HTTPException from an unexpected one.
Two things are easy to miss. An error thrown inside a waitUntil callback is not caught, because that work runs outside the request chain. And app.notFound is separate: a request that matched no route never reaches onError, so a JSON API needs both handlers or it returns a non-JSON 404 body. An HTTPException can carry a custom response, which is how deep code returns a correctly shaped error.
Source: https://hono.dev/docs/api/exception
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