spec VS generator

Compare spec vs generator and see what are their differences.

spec

The AsyncAPI specification allows you to create machine-readable definitions of your asynchronous APIs. (by asyncapi)

generator

Use your AsyncAPI definition to generate literally anything. Markdown documentation, Node.js code, HTML documentation, anything! (by asyncapi)
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spec generator
42 5
3,776 686
3.0% 3.1%
7.9 8.9
9 days ago 7 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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spec

Posts with mentions or reviews of spec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

generator

Posts with mentions or reviews of generator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-06.
  • AsyncAPI Codegen, a code generator from AsyncAPI spec v2 and v3.
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2024
    For that, the project provides a Javascript tool to generate source code from specification in numerous languages: Python, Java, Markdown, PHP, … and even Go! All you have to do is install the corresponding NPM packages and launch the right command tool.
  • What is AsyncAPI?
    5 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2022
    AsyncAPI Generator
  • An introduction to the AsyncAPI specification
    4 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022
    With the file created, we can now generate more friendly documentation. For this, we need to install generator or use it in its Docker version.
  • Getting Started with CloudEvents and AsyncAPI
    8 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2021
    This can be improved and extended overtime, especially because of the way the generator is designed, enabling extensibility so we can have templates for many other languages that support more protocols, etc. For example, there is only a NATS generator for .NET Core... but perhaps in the future there could be more protocols supported for .NET Core and examples built for Azure 😃.
  • How to contribute to OSS AsyncAPI Initiative 🌈
    7 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2021
    Continue improvements and add new features to core tools such as our spec parser/validator and code generator.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spec and generator you can also consider the following projects:

springdoc-openapi - Library for OpenAPI 3 with spring-boot

WatermelonDB - 🍉 Reactive & asynchronous database for powerful React and React Native apps ⚡️

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

mqtt-venstar-bridge - Simple MQTT bridge to the venstar HTTP API

eventbridge-atlas - Open-source tool to document, discover, and share your Amazon EventBridge schemas.

Flask-SocketIO - Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.

spec - CloudEvents Specification

JSON-Schema Faker - JSON-Schema + fake data generators

asyncapi-to-postman - Creates a Postman collection from an AsyncAPI file.

openapi-generator - OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

github-action - GitHub action to deploy your API documentation on Bump