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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

RenderTree in Blazor

We have seen how we develop components, manipulate the UI, build forms, and optimize our components and project for faster and more efficient performance. It’s now time to go deep and learn how Razor components are compiled and how Blazor manipulates the UI you see in the browser.

We will start by learning a bit more about the difference between Single-Page Applications (SPAs) and traditional web apps in terms of how the UI works, then we will go deeper by defining RenderTree in Blazor and what happens to .razor files at compilation. After covering the theory, we will develop a simple component using purely C# and learn about how to take advantage of this advanced scenario, helping us build more performant apps.

This chapter covers some advanced topics that may not be directly relevant for practical applications of Blazor and day-to-day work, but they can help you gain a deeper understanding of how Blazor works under the hood and go through scenarios...