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Overview

This repository contains the sources of AsyncAPI website:

• It's powered by Next.js,
• It uses Tailwind CSS framework,
• It's build and deployed with Netlify,
• It uses Storybook as a frontend workshop and for documenting UI components.

Requirements

Use the following tools to set up the project:

• Node.js v20.12.0+
• npm v10.5.0+

🎨 Icons

Icons used across the AsyncAPI website are part of the AsyncAPI design system. All icons follow a 24px grid, 1.5px stroke outline style. To find and use icons:

1. Open the AsyncAPI design system Figma file

2. Right-click any icon → Copy as → SVG

   

3. Paste inline in your component

For the full icon audit, style rules, and contribution guidelines see the Icon System documentation.

Run locally

1. Fork the repository by clicking on Fork option on top right of the main repository.

2. Open Command Prompt on your local computer.

3. Clone the forked repository by adding your own GitHub username in place of <username>. For multiple contributions it is recommended to have proper configuration of forked repo.

    git clone https://github.com/<username>/website/

4. Navigate to the website directory.

    cd website

5. Install all website dependencies.

    npm install

6. Run the website locally.

    npm run dev

7. Access the live development server at localhost:3000.

8. To run the storybook locally:

    npm run dev:storybook

9. Access the live storybook development server at localhost:6006.

Compose new blog post

To bootstrap a new post, run this command:

    npm run write:blog

Follow the interactive prompt to generate a post with pre-filled front matter.

Spin up Gitpod codespace

In order to prepare and spin up a Gitpod dev environment for our project, we configured our workspace through a .gitpod.yml file.

To spin up a Gitpod codespace, go to http://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/asyncapi/website.

Build

1. To build a production-ready website, run the following command:

npm run build

Generated files of the website go to the .next folder.

2. To build the production-ready storybook, run the following command:

npm run build:storybook

Generated files of the storybook go to the storybook-static folder.

Run locally using Docker

Prerequisites:

• install Docker

After cloning repository to your local, run the docker compose in watch mode from the root of the repository.

docker compose up --watch

Now you're running AsyncAPI website in a development mode. Container is mapped with your local copy of the website. Whenever you make changes to the code, the website will refresh and changes visible in localhost:3000.

Use shared Markdown fragments

To minimize the duplication of content and make it easier to maintain, there are shared fragments you can use when working with Markdown files. These fragments are stored in the /assets/docs/fragments directory.

To include a fragment in a Markdown file:

1. Import the fragment at the top of the file (but below the frontmatter) using the following syntax:

   import DesiredFragmentName from '@/assets/docs/fragments/fragmentYouWantToImport.md';
   

2. Add the imported fragment to the desired location in the Markdown file using the following syntax:

   <DesiredFragmentName />
   

Lint the code

To lint the code, run the following command:

npm run lint

To fix the linting issues, run the following command:

npm run lint:fix

To lint the mdx files, run the following command:

npm run lint:mdx

Start the production server

To build and run a production-ready website, run the following command:

npm run build && npm run start

Generated files of the website go in the .next folder.

Start the netlify production server

Start a local development server for the build tool using the configuration and environment variables set for local development with the Netlify CLI:

netlify dev

To start the server using the configuration and environment variables set for dev or all deploy contexts, run the following command:

netlify dev --context production

Updating information about project finance

AsyncAPI Financial Summary page aims to provide transparency and clarity regarding the organization's financial activities. It serves as a platform to showcase how donations are accepted, different sponsorship options, and how the generated funds are utilized.

How to update information

• YAML files must be stored in the config/finance directory.

• Create separate folders for each year under config/finance, such as config/finance/2023. Inside each year's folder, include two YAML files: Expenses.yml and ExpensesLink.yml.

• In Expenses.yml, record expenses for each month, specifying the Category and Amount.

• In ExpensesLink.yml, provide discussion links related to expense categories.

• When a new year begins, create a corresponding folder for that year under config/finance and place the YAML files inside the folder for that specific year. For example, create a folder named config/finance/2024 for the year 2024 and config/finance/2025 for the year 2025. Place the YAML file for each respective year inside its designated folder.

• Modify the years within the scripts/finance/index.js , lib/getUniqueCategories.js and components/FinancialSummary/BarChartComponent.js to handle data for different years effectively.

Case studies

Overview

A case study is a special document that any end-user company can provide. An end-user company is a company that uses AsyncAPI to solve technical challenges. A case study is not a document where a vendor company can describe how they build their commercial AsyncAPI-based product. On the other hand, it is completely fine if a case study of some end-user mentions some commercial tools that helped them to work with AsyncAPI or event-driven architecture. An example of such a case can be a case study from an end-user where at some point, Confluent Schema Registry is mentioned in an explanation about schemas and runtime message validation.

How to add a case study

A case study is documented in the form of a YAML file. Anyone can open a pull request with a new case study.

• YAML file must be located in config/casestudies.
• To make it easier for you to create such a YAML file you can use:
  • Template YAML with comments explaining every section
  • JSON Schema that describes all YAML fields
• All additional files for the case study, like complete AsyncAPI document examples, should be located in the public/resources/casestudies directory.
• Company logo and other images that will be rendered in the website should be located in public/img/casestudies.

Once you collect all information and create a case study, open a pull request. It must be authored or at least approved by a representative of the given company. Such a representative is probably already a contact person mentioned in the case study.

A case study becomes publicly available right after merging and rebuilding the website.

JSON Schema definitions

All AsyncAPI JSON Schema definition files are being served within the /definitions/<file> path. The content is being served from GH, in particular from https://github.com/asyncapi/spec-json-schemas/tree/master/schemas. This is possible thanks to the following:

1. A Netlify Rewrite rule located in the netlify.toml file, which acts as proxy for all requests to the /definitions/<file> path, serving the content from GH without having an HTTP redirect.
2. A Netlify Edge Function that modifies the Content-Type header of the rewrite response to become application/schema+json. This lets tooling, such as Hyperjump, to fetch the schemas directly from their URL.
   Please find a flowchart explaining the flow this edge function should accomplish:

flowchart TD
  Request(Request) -->schema-related{Is it requesting Schemas?}
  schema-related -->|No| req_no_schemas[Let the original request go through]
  req_no_schemas --> Response(Response)
  schema-related -->|Yes| req_schemas[Fetch from GitHub]
  req_schemas-->req_json{Was requesting a .json file?}
  
  req_json -->|No| Response(Response)
  req_json -->|Yes| response_status{Response Status?}
  
  response_status -->|2xx| response_ok[OK]
  response_status -->|304| response_cached[Not Modified]
  response_status -->|Any other| response_ko

  response_ok --> set_headers[Set Response Content-Type header to application/schema+json]
  set_headers --> send_metric_success[Send success metric]
  response_cached -- cached:true --> send_metric_success
  response_ko --> send_metric_error[Send error metric]

  send_metric_success -- file served from raw GH --> Response(Response)
  send_metric_error --the errored response --> Response(Response)

Project structure

This repository has the following structure:

  ├── .github                                  # Definitions of GitHub workflows, pull request and issue templates
  ├── .storybook                               # Storybook configuration for UI components
  ├── assets                                   # Various assets
  |    ├── docs                                # Documentation assets
  |        | fragments                         # Documentations for CLI installation and contribution.
  ├── cheatsheet                               # Markdown based cheatsheets used in the website
  ├── components                               # Various generic components such as "Button", "Figure", etc.
  ├── config                                   # Transformed static data to display on the pages such as blog posts etc.
  ├── context                                  # Various React's contexts used in website
  ├── cypress                                  # End-to-end tests for the website
  ├── development                              # Development utilities and helper scripts
  ├── docs                                     # Documentation related resources
  ├── locales                                  # Translations for the website
  ├── markdown                                 # Markdown files for the website
       ├── about                               # Markdown files for the /about page
       ├── blog                                # Markdown files for the blog posts
       ├── docs                                # Markdown files for the /docs/* pages
  ├── netlify                                  # Contains Netlify serverless functions to run on Netlify
  ├── pages                                    # Website's pages source. It includes raw markdown files and React page templates.
  │    ├── about                               # Raw blog for /about page
  │    ├── blog                                # Blog posts
  │    ├── docs                                # Blog for /docs/* pages
  │    └── tools                               # Various pages to describe tools
  ├── public                                   # Data for site metadata and static blog such as images
  ├── scripts                                  # Scripts used in the build and dev processes
  ├── styles                                   # Various CSS files
  ├── templates                                # Various template markdown files
  ├── tests                                    # Test files for the project
  ├── types                                    # Various TypeScript types used in the website
  ├── utils                                    # Various JS code for preparing static data to render in pages
  ├── next.config.mjs                          # Next.js configuration file
  ├── README.md                                # Project's README file
  ├── tailwind.config.ts                       # TailwindCSS configuration file
  └── tsconfig.json                            # TypeScript configuration file

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License

This project's source code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. A copy of the license is available in LICENSE file.

This project's documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0). A copy of the license is available in LICENSE-docs.

AsyncAPI Contributors ✨

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This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!