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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

Discovering the component life cycle

Blazor components go through a set of methods from initialization to rendering and finally being disposed of. These methods have synchronous and asynchronous versions that we can leverage to perform certain tasks.

The following list shows the methods that the components go through; not all of them are being called. Being called depends on whether the component is being rendered for the first time:

  • SetParameterAsync: This sets the value of the parameters from the component parent and the route parameters. (More about route parameters will be covered in Chapter 4, Navigation and Routing.)

The default implementation of this method sets the values of the parameters and the cascading parameters available. SetParameterAsync is called only for the first render of the component. Overriding its implementation allows you to control the process of setting the values of the parameters and write some logic based on that, as shown in the BookCard...