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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

Decreasing the initial download size with assembly lazy loading

In single-page applications in general and Blazor WebAssembly specifically, the full app packages, scripts, and stylesheets are downloaded for the first time to the browser so the app is fully functional on the client side. The average Blazor WebAssembly app has a size of 2 MB when it is published. That’s not very big, but when the app gets more complicated and more packages and assemblies are involved, the size can increase significantly.

In this section, we will learn about Blazor WebAssembly’s lazy loading feature, which was released in .NET 6.0 to help reduce the initial download size to make first-time loading faster. Additionally, Blazor provides some out-of-the-box features, such as runtime relinking, compression, and trimming, that decrease the app size, but we will cover those features in the Blazor WebAssembly app prerelease final checks section Chapter 14, Publishing Blazor WebAssembly Apps...