AsyncAPI Ideas Page: Google Summer of Code 2025

Welcome to the AsyncAPI Ideas Page with our proposed projects for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025! If you are an interested contributor, please don't hesitate to contact our mentors directly to discuss project ideas.

1) Enhancing Performance and Reliability of AsyncAPI CLI

Improve the AsyncAPI CLI by optimizing performance, enhancing test reliability, and introducing long-requested features such as publishing and syncing AsyncAPI files with remote repositories.

• 🎯 Outcome: Achieve a faster CLI execution, stable tests, file sync/publish support, and enhanced validation.
• 🛠️ Skills Required: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Testing Frameworks, API, and testing automation.
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @AayushSaini101 | @Souvikns
• ⏳ Length: 175 Hours

2) AI-Powered Assistant for AsyncAPI

Build an AI-powered assistant fine-tuned on AsyncAPI to provide accurate answers, generate code snippets, debug specifications, and recommend best practices.

• 🎯 Outcome: A fine-tuned LLM-powered chatbot integrated with AsyncAPI’s ecosystem for enhanced developer support.
• 🛠️ Skills Required: Javascript/Typescript, Machine Learning (LLMs), NLP, OpenAI/Llama, Chatbot Integration.
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @AceTheCreator
• ⏳ Length: 175 Hours

3) AsyncAPI Generator Maintainership

This initiative aims to guide you from contributing to maintaining the project. You'll gain insight into the responsibilities of a maintainer, which involve tasks beyond mere coding.

• 🎯 Outcome: Responsible for the project's future and continuous improvement.
• 🛠️ Skills: JavaScript/TypeScript, testing libraries, Docker, virtualization, and test automation.
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @derberg
• ⏳ Length: 350 Hours

4) AsyncAPI Conference Website UI Kit Development

Develop a comprehensive UI Kit to enhance design consistency, modularity, and maintainability of the AsyncAPI Conference website.

• 🎯 Outcome: A structured UI Kit with reusable components, Storybook integration, and improved design consistency.
• 🛠️ Skills Required: React, TypeScript, Storybook, UI/UX Design, Component Development.
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @AceTheCreator
• ⏳ Length: 175 Hours

5) VS Code Extension Maintainership

This initiative will guide you from contributing to becoming a maintainer of the VS Code AsyncAPI Preview extension. You'll learn the responsibilities of a maintainer, including code contributions, issue triaging, release management, and community engagement.

• 🎯 Outcome: Taking ownership of the VS Code extension to ensure its long-term stability and improvement.
• 🛠️ Skills Required: TypeScript/JavaScript, VS Code Extensions, Spectral Linting, Testing, and Open Source Contribution.
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @ivangsa
• ⏳ Length: 350 Hours

6) Java + Quarkus Template for AsyncAPI Generator

Develop a new AsyncAPI Generator template for Java with Quarkus, leveraging its growing adoption in cloud-native development.

• 🎯 Outcome: A fully functional Java + Quarkus template for generating AsyncAPI-based applications.
• 🛠️ Skills Required: Java, Quarkus, Templating Engines (Nunjucks/Handlebars), AsyncAPI Generator.
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @AayushSaini101, @Souvikns
• ⏳ Length: 350 Hours

7) Refactor the Scripts inside the website and add Integration tests

Add the script execution to a new folder inside the website, and add integration tests for those scripts.

• 🎯 Outcome: A full Unit + Integration tests setup will be added for the scripts to fully test the functionalities
• 🛠️ Skills Required: Typescript, Node js, Jest, Github actions
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @akshatnema
• ⏳ Length: 350 Hours

8) Add E2E tests for the Website critical flows

Add E2E tests for the website where some of the critical flows (that are centered around user experience are tested thoroughly).

• 🎯 Outcome: This project will ensure that we are not breaking any critical flows where user experience is our topmost priority
• 🛠️ Skills Required: Typescript, Node js, E2E Testing, Github actions
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @sambhavgupta0705
• ⏳ Length: 175 hours

9) Redesign of website and addition of Dark theme

Create new designs for the website pages based on the theme chosen by @Mayaleeeee and replicate those designs inside the website, along with the Dark mode theme.

• 🎯 Outcome: This project will ensure that we are not breaking any critical flows where user experience is our topmost priority
• 🛠️ Skills Required: Typescript, Node js, Figma, TailwindCSS
• 🧩 Difficulty: Medium/Hard
• 👩🏿‍🏫 Mentor(s): @Mayaleeeee, @devilkiller-ag
• ⏳ Length: 350 hours

Contact AsyncAPI Mentors

• Join our Slack workspace. Observe our Slack etiquette and AsyncAPI code of conduct.
• Join the dedicated Mentorship channel #09_mentorships to meet all other GSoC mentees and mentors.

FAQ

1. How active are previous GSoC contributors in AsyncAPI? AsyncAPI participated as a standalone organization in GSoC for the first time in 2024 after previously collaborating with Postman. Many contributors from that cohort remain actively involved in the community, including:

   • @ashmit-coder: Now a maintainer of the conference-website repository.
   • @helios2003: Actively contributing to the CLI and Studio repositories.
   • @vishvamsinh28: Active contributor and code reviewer in the Website and conference-website repositories.

   You can learn more about our GSoC 2024 participation in our official blog post.

2. Is using ChatGPT for GSoC project proposals allowed? We advise against using ChatGPT or similar AI tools for your GSoC project proposals with AsyncAPI. If you choose to use such tools, we require that you fully disclose this in your application.

3. Where is the AsyncAPI source code located? You can find all AsyncAPI source code on GitHub under our organization: https://github.com/asyncapi.

If you have further questions or queries, please create an issue in this /community repo (with the prefix GSoC 2025) or start an open AsyncAPI discussion.