Request Lifecycle
H3 dispatches incoming web requests to final web responses.
Below is an overview of what happens in a H3 server from when an HTTP request arrives until a response is generated.
1. Incoming Request
When An HTTP request is made by Browser or fetch(), server fetch handler receives a Request object.
2. Accept Request
H3 Initializes an H3Event
instance from incoming request, calls onRequest
global hook and finally H3.handler
with the initialized event.
3. Dispatch Request
H3 matches route based on request.url
and request.method
, calls global middleware and finally matched route handler function with event.
🚀 Internally, H3 uses srvx
FastURL
instead of new URL(req.url).pathname
.4. Send Response
H3 converts returned value and prepared headers into a Response, calls onResponse
global hook and finally returns response back to the server fetch handler.