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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

Introducing Blazor WebAssembly ASP.NET Core Hosted

Throughout this book, we fully focused on the Blazor WebAssembly project; even when we introduced the API, I kept it away so you could just focus on what matters in Blazor WebAssembly within the browser.

What we have created during this book is called a Blazor WebAssembly standalone project, which means a project that serves itself and will be published without any server or backend to serve it.

.NET already offers an out-of-the-box template for a Blazor WebAssembly project called Blazor WebAssembly ASP.NET Core Hosted. This template creates a Blazor WebAssembly project, a shared class library project, and an ASP.NET Core API directly inside the solution. The most interesting part of this type of project is that the API project is responsible for serving the Blazor WebAssembly app to the client. In other words, you only need to host the server project and the Blazor WebAssembly project will be referenced inside it.

The Blazor...