API Design · Senior · Question 53 of 75

Why document real-time and event APIs with AsyncAPI?

1AsyncAPI is required by WebSockets
2It makes messages faster
✓Correct answer: Event channels, message schemas and delivery guarantees are contracts too; documenting them enables code generation and compatibility checks

Explanation

Without a contract, event-driven systems accumulate implicit dependencies that break silently.

Further reading

AsyncAPI: Documentation ↗

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