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Mastering Blazor WebAssembly

By : Ahmad Mozaffar
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Book Image

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

Sending a GET request

Let’s learn more about calling web APIs and improve our project even further. When you run the project, it redirects you by default to the index page, where a list of books will be shown on the UI. The books are fetched from a local in-memory collection inside the LocalBooksService.cs class within the Services folder. We need to replace that fixed data list with a web API call that retrieves the books from the API. Unlike the GET request we saw in the FetchData component, this one will be written step by step, and we will have better control over the response:

  1. As we learned earlier, before we write the code, we need to understand the targeted endpoint. Navigate to the web API Swagger page and expand the /Books GET request to see what it returns in both success and failure cases.
  2. You can open Postman and send a GET request to https://localhost:7188/books to see the response it retrieves.
Figure 8.8 – GET /Books request responses in web API

Figure 8.8 – GET...