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The definitive stable version of the Ably realtime messaging documentation can be found at https://ably.com/docs.
This documentation is a static site generated from the Github repository at https://github.com/ably/docs. Anyone can fork this documentation and contributions can be made via pull requests. All changes in this repository will be merged into the definitive Ably documentation periodically.
The Ably documentation is organized as follows:
- Getting started & key concepts: Quick start guide and key concepts
- Realtime client library API documentation
- REST client library API documentation
- REST API documentation. Note, we recommend you use one of our REST client libraries instead of accessing the Ably REST API directly as the client libraries abstract away underlying complexity and provide a rich convenient feature set to developers.
- More detail behind some of Ably’s key features: Authentication, Channel rules and namespaces, Receiving Webhooks, and Application statistics
- Documentation targeted at client library developers including Protocol documentation, details on Encryption, and our fallback mechanisms to ensure we can deliver on our uptime guarantee. Unless you are developing or extending an existing Ably client library, this documentation is most likely more low level than is needed for you to use the Ably realtime message service.
Contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.