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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

Implementing authorization and advanced authentication features

We now have a new term to learn about – authorization. We have mentioned authentication many times, but what is authorization? It is a mechanism on top of authentication that restricts access to resources even for authenticated users.

We gave the example of an employee being allowed access to their company building because they proved that they are an employee. That’s authentication. Authorization, on the other hand, means the employee cannot access all the departments inside the building. They require a special role, or permission, to do that.

In software, the same concepts apply: the user is authenticated after successfully logging in, but authorization means that the user cannot take certain actions or access certain features without a specific role or permission.

In this section, we will discover how to implement authorization using the Blazor authentication library with roles or policies. After...