The Zoo of Lies

Published on the 14th of Sep 2025

🦒 What is this? A fun experiment with Honox (Hono + React), Cloudflare Workers, and KV storage to serve random animal facts (or lies, who knows?).

Figure 1: Preview of the Zoo of Lies
Figure 1: Preview of the Zoo of Lies

Features

  • Honox: A full-stack framework combining Hono (web framework) with React
  • Cloudflare Workers: Edge computing platform for fast, global deployment
  • Cloudflare KV: Key-value storage for the facts database
  • Rate Limiting: Built-in protection against abuse
  • The app serves random "facts" about animals (some might be lies, hence the name) through a simple API and displays them in a clean React interface.

Motivation

This project is hosted on Cloudflare Workers, with KV as the database, because why not make nonsense fast at the edge? Actually, this is just me testing out Hono with React and Cloudflare Workers, playing with their 'cool edge whatever that is.' If you get a laugh (or at least a raised eyebrow), mission accomplished.

The Zoo of Lies · Johnny Chai