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Web Development with Blazor

By : Jimmy Engström
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Web Development with Blazor

By: Jimmy Engström

Overview of this book

Blazor is an essential tool if you want to build interactive web apps without JS, but it comes with its own learning curve. Web Development with Blazor will help you overcome most common challenges developers face when getting started with Blazor and teach you the best coding practices. You’ll start by learning how to leverage the power of Blazor and explore the full capabilities of both Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. Then you’ll move on to the practical part, which is centred around a sample project – a blog engine. This is where you’ll apply all your newfound knowledge about creating Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly projects, the inner working of Razor syntax, and validating forms, as well as creating your own components. You’ll learn all the key concepts involved in web development with Blazor, which you’ll also be able to put into practice straight away. By showing you how all the components work together practically, this book will help you avoid some of the common roadblocks that novice Blazor developers face and inspire you to start experimenting with Blazor on your other projects. When you reach the end of this Blazor book, you'll have gained the confidence you need to create and deploy production-ready Blazor applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Basics
4
Section 2:Building an Application with Blazor
14
Section 3:Debug, Test, and Deploy

Hosting options

When it comes to hosting Blazor, there are many options. Any cloud service that can host ASP.NET Core sites should be able to run Blazor without any problems.

There are some things we need to think about, so let's go through the options one by one.

Hosting Blazor Server

If the cloud provider has an option to enable/disable WebSockets, we want to enable them since that's the protocol used by SignalR. Depending on the load, we might want to use a service such as Azure SignalR Service, which will take care of all the connections and enable our application to handle more users.

In some cases, the cloud provider may support .NET Core 3.x but not support .NET 5 out of the box. But don't worry; by making sure to publish our application with the deployment mode as self-contained, we make sure the deployment also adds any files necessary to run the project (this might not be true for all hosting providers).

This is also a good thing to do to make...