User guide

This is the reference documentation. If you’re looking to learn Asphalt from scratch, you should take a look at the Tutorials first.

• Application architecture
• Working with components
  • Component startup
• Working with contexts and resources
  • Adding resources to a context
  • Getting resources from a context
  • Injecting resources to functions
  • Handling resource cleanup
• Working with tasks and threads
  • Working with asynchronous tasks
  • Working with threads
• Working with signals and events
  • Receiving events iteratively
  • Waiting for a single event
  • Filtering received events
• Testing Asphalt components
  • Example
• Configuration and deployment
  • Running the Asphalt launcher
  • Writing a configuration file
  • Using multiple components of the same type under the same parent component
  • Using data from environment variables and files
  • Configuration overlays
  • Defining multiple services
  • Performance tuning
• Migrating from Asphalt 4.x to 5.x
  • Resources
  • Component classes
  • Container components
  • CLI application components
  • Starting tasks at component startup
  • Starting ad-hoc tasks after application startup
  • Threads
  • Signals and events
  • Configuration