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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

Technical requirements

To follow along with this chapter and the rest of the book, you need to know the basic concepts of the C# programming language and the fundamentals of web development.

The development process will require Visual Studio 2022 Community, which can be downloaded for free for Windows devices from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community, and for macOS devices from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/.

Alternatively, you can use Visual Studio Code for any OS (Windows, macOS, or Linux) by downloading it from https://code.visualstudio.com/download.

If you are not going to be installing Visual Studio 2022, you need to make sure that the .NET 7.0 SDK is available on your computer. This SDK generally gets downloaded along with Visual Studio 2022. If you don’t have the SDK, you can install it from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download.

In later chapters, we will mostly be using Visual Studio 2022 for Windows, but all the concepts will be applicable to Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio Code with the .NET CLI.

You can find the complete source code for this chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Blazor-WebAssembly/tree/main/Chapter_01/BooksStore.