Developing and optimizing API documentation for clarity and usability

Although we described general documentation best practices in the previous section, the API documentation is worth additional refinement.

To fully understand the importance of API documentation in the context of an ADF, we must first clarify how APIs relate specifically to an ADF. Traditionally, API documentation refers to comprehensive references for a fixed set of endpoints that frameworks directly expose, such as RESTful routes, RPC calls, or library methods. However, when we discuss APIs within the ADF domain, we refer to something notably different.

Typically, an ADF itself does not provide static, built-in APIs. Instead, its core value lies in the infrastructure, tooling, and patterns it provides, empowering application developers to define, implement, and manage their own domain-specific APIs. In other words, the APIs produced by an ADF are an emergent property shaped by how developers choose to implement...