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Mastering Blazor WebAssembly

By : Ahmad Mozaffar
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Mastering Blazor WebAssembly

3.5 (2)
By: Ahmad Mozaffar

Overview of this book

Blazor WebAssembly is a revolutionary technology in software development that enables you to develop web applications with a rich user interface using C# without JavaScript. It can be run natively in the browser and soon on mobile apps with .NET MAUI, making it a superweapon in the .NET developer’s toolbox. This capability has opened the doors for the JavaScript community to have a stable framework to build single page applications (SPAs) maintained by Microsoft and driven by the community. Mastering Blazor WebAssembly is a complete resource that teaches you everything you need to build client-side web applications using C# & .NET 7.0. Throughout this book, you’ll discover the anatomy of a Blazor WebAssembly project, along with the build, style, and structure of the components. You’ll implement forms to catch user input and collect data, as well as explore the topics of navigating between the pages in depth. The chapters will guide you through handling complex scenarios like RenderTrees, writing efficient unit tests, using variant security methods, and publishing the app to different providers, all in a practical manner. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills necessary to build web apps with Blazor WebAssembly, along with the basics for a future in mobile development with .NET MAUI and Blazor.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Blazor WebAssembly Essentials
5
Part 2: App Parts and Features
13
Part 3: Optimization and Deployment

Consuming Web APIs from Blazor WebAssembly

It’s time to feed our application and the page we have built with a real data source, let the app communicate with an online service to list the books available, and create the functionality for an admin to add new ones.

We will start this chapter by explaining why you need to communicate with an API from your Blazor app, in addition to understanding the built-in .NET class HttpClient, as well as other extensions that will be used to implement the communication with the API.

Next, we will practice sending GET and POST requests to our API. We will also explore some more advanced techniques to manage and manipulate HttpClient instances. We will use IHttpClientFactory and delegating handlers to apply global logic to HTTP requests and responses. By the end of the chapter, we will have learned how to encapsulate the API calls and take them out of the components to keep them clean and testable.

This chapter will enable you to consume...