Become a sponsor to AsyncAPI Initiative
We're on a mission to standardize message-based communication and increase interoperability of the different types of messaging systems available.
The messaging world is full of schema formats and protocols. Some of us prefer to use a combination of Google's protobuf with AMQP, or Avro with Kafka, or Avro with MQTT, or protobuf with MQTT, … you guessed it.
In production systems, it's common to find REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, and message-driven APIs working together. All of them serving as different interaction layers for the same data/operations. REST is usually defined using the OpenAPI specification, GraphQL has its own built-in schema language, and message-driven APIs now have AsyncAPI.
AsyncAPI is a common language for all the different protocols and schema formats, but we need to make it easy for developers to create new message-driven systems, in their programming language of choice. A quick calculation takes us to 120 possible combinations, assuming we create tooling for 6 programming languages (e.g., Java, Node.js, Go, Python, PHP, and Ruby), 4 schema formats (OpenAPI schemas, JSON Schema, Protobuf, and Avro), and 5 protocols (AMQP 0-9-1, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, Kafka, and WebSockets). We know it's a huge challenge, but we accept it 💪
REST APIs have OpenAPI. Messaging has AsyncAPI.
Meet the team
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Fran Méndez fmvilasCreator of the @asyncapi specification. Director of Engineering at @getpostman.
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Lukasz Gornicki derbergHired by Postman to work for the community of AsyncAPI Initiative. Currently appointed by the community as the Executive Director.
Featured work
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asyncapi/spec
The AsyncAPI specification allows you to create machine-readable definitions of your asynchronous APIs.
JavaScript 3,913 -
asyncapi/generator
Use your AsyncAPI definition to generate literally anything. Markdown documentation, Node.js code, HTML documentation, anything!
JavaScript 742 -
asyncapi/asyncapi-react
React component for rendering documentation from your specification in real-time in the browser. It also provides a WebComponent and bundle for Angular and Vue
TypeScript 161 -
asyncapi/parser-js
AsyncAPI parser for Javascript (browser-compatible too).
TypeScript 110 -
asyncapi/java-spring-cloud-stream-template
Java Spring Cloud Stream template for the AsyncAPI Generator
JavaScript 31 -
asyncapi/nodejs-template
This template generates a server using your AsyncAPI document. It supports multiple different protocols, like Kafka or MQTT. It is designed in the way that generated code is a library and with it's…
JavaScript 36