From: Jaakko Lappalainen <jkk.lapp@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 08:55:57 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: added docs for startup/shutdown of ASGI apps (#1554)
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added docs for startup/shutdown of ASGI apps (#1554)
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diff --git a/docs/async.md b/docs/async.md
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--- a/docs/async.md
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@@ -237,3 +237,9 @@ async with httpx.AsyncClient(transport=transport, base_url="http://testserver")
 ```
 
 See [the ASGI documentation](https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/specs/www.html#connection-scope) for more details on the `client` and `root_path` keys.
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+## Startup/shutdown of ASGI apps
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+It is not in the scope of HTTPX to trigger lifespan events of your app.
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+However it is suggested to use `LifespanManager` from [asgi-lifespan](https://github.com/florimondmanca/asgi-lifespan#usage) in pair with `AsyncClient`.