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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

What is RenderTree in Blazor?

While developing components in Blazor and using some bindings, we don’t update the DOM directly. Between our components and the DOM, Blazor creates an in-memory programmatic lightweight object called RenderTree that represents the current DOM’s state.

Due to the nature of RenderTree as a C# object, it’s easy to manipulate its state and content instead of manipulating the DOM directly, because in SPAs, the process of manipulating the DOM is heavy and complex. When a change occurs in the app and it requires the UI to be updated, Blazor updates the state of RenderTree and then compares the updated status with the original one using an advanced diffing algorithm. The algorithm is responsible for identifying the differences between the original state and the new one in an efficient manner. This all happens in RenderTree, rather than in the DOM directly, taking only the differences and applying only what has changed to the DOM, which...