After my original post, the Hacker News community helped me identify critical issues with my benchmarking approach. Here's what I learned:

The Problem:

I used autocannon for benchmarking, which can't handle Bun.serve speeds (as pointed out by Elysia's maintainer)

Made exaggerated performance claims

Had security vulnerabilities in JWT implementation

The Fix:

Switched to oha for accurate benchmarks: 21,748 req/s (placing PrinceJS among top 3 Bun frameworks)

Fixed all security issues

Removed "fastest" claims, now positioning honestly as competitive

Technical Details:

Real oha results: Elysia (25,312), Hono (22,124), PrinceJS (21,748), Express (9,325)

Running on Windows 10 with: oha -c 100 -z 30s

Next step: Cloud VM testing for consistent, reproducible benchmarks

The framework is now more honest about its capabilities while still delivering competitive performance. Lesson learned: accuracy and security matter more than impressive numbers.

Try it: bun add princejs

GitHub: https://github.com/MatthewTheCoder1218/princejs