Installer asyncapi avec Homebrew, Nix

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• asyncapi

Historique du projet

The CLI repository began in 2021 with an explicit design phase and grew into an oclif-based Node.js command suite. Its README describes it as a CLI for AsyncAPI files and points contributors to generated usage docs, architecture docs, and command patterns such as `verb + noun` and `namespace + noun + verb`.

The 5.x and 6.x lines show the project consolidating around document operations and generator integration. Version 6.0.0 removed Postman-to-AsyncAPI conversion support because the dependency chain had become unmaintained and difficult to support, which is a good example of the CLI being maintained as a practical tool rather than only an aggregation point.

Historique d'adoption

AsyncAPI CLI is shipped through npm, Homebrew, Docker, macOS pkg files, Windows installers, Chocolatey, Debian packages, and other package channels documented by the project. The supplied Homebrew and Nix package metadata shows it has crossed from the JavaScript ecosystem into system package-manager catalogs.

Its adoption follows the growth of AsyncAPI as a specification for event-driven and asynchronous APIs: teams that already keep OpenAPI-like documents in repositories can add the CLI to CI, local validation, code-generation, documentation-preview, and schema-maintenance workflows.

Modes d'utilisation

Common package-manager usage is `asyncapi validate`, `asyncapi bundle`, `asyncapi diff`, `asyncapi generate`, `asyncapi start preview`, and `asyncapi start studio`. The CLI also has context commands for giving short names to AsyncAPI document paths and auth commands for resolving protected remote references.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

AsyncAPI CLI is interesting because it is both a Node package and a cross-platform native-feeling CLI artifact. Package maintainers have to care about npm global installs, generated oclif command docs, shell completion, Docker images, OS installers, Homebrew bottles, and the fast-moving AsyncAPI toolchain behind the single `asyncapi` executable.

Chronologie

• 2021: Initial CLI repository commits and design notes.
• 2026: v6.0.0 removed Postman conversion support after dependency-maintenance issues.
• 2026: v6.0.2 patched request-body validation behavior.

Related projects

• Related AsyncAPI projects include the AsyncAPI specification, generator, converter-js, Studio/preview tooling, templates, parser tooling, and the broader event-driven API documentation ecosystem.

Sources

• Official git metadata from https://github.com/asyncapi/cli.git
• https://github.com/asyncapi/cli#readme
• https://github.com/asyncapi/cli/blob/master/docs/installation.md
• https://github.com/asyncapi/cli/blob/master/docs/usage.md
• https://github.com/asyncapi/cli/releases.atom