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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

Components in Blazor

Components are the main building blocks of each Blazor application. Each component is a self-contained piece of the user interface (UI) and its related logic, and comprises a dynamic part of the application UI. A Blazor application is basically a set of components placed together, each of which has its own responsibility within the UI, and the interaction of these components builds up the full app that we are aiming for in this book.

In this chapter, we are going to understand the concept of components from scratch, create our first component, and then use it. We will discover the available mechanisms to pass data between components by introducing parameters, cascading parameters, and event callbacks.

After that, we will look at the component life cycle events and how we can leverage them during the component’s lifetime. Finally, we will add some CSS styling for a better look.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding...