docs(migrate): highlight Elysia string status name advantage #745
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This change highlights one of Elysia's developer experience advantages for developers migrating from Express, Fastify, and Hono. While those frameworks require numeric HTTP status codes like
res.status(404), Elysia supports both numeric codes and human-readable string names likeset.status = 'Not Found'. This makes code more readable and reduces the need to memorize status code numbers, which is a genuine improvement worth surfacing to potential migrants.To accomplish this, I added tip boxes to the Express, Fastify, and Hono migration guides that explicitly call out this dual support. The tRPC migration guide frames this feature differently since tRPC already uses string-based error codes, making the transition to Elysia's string status names feel more natural. This builds on PRs #739-#744, which also improved visibility of string status name support throughout the documentation.