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Mastering Blazor WebAssembly

By : Ahmad Mozaffar
3.5 (2)
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

Building layouts in Blazor

Most applications have common pieces of UI shared across different pages such as menus, navbars, company branding, and some other content. Rewriting this markup in every page component is very inefficient in modern software development. The solution is to have a single place where we place this shared content and then reference it from the pages, and here is where layout comes into play.

So basically, a layout is a special type of Blazor component that defines the general structure of the app by hosting the shared markup.

Understanding our Blazor project’s default MainLayout

Before getting started with creating our own layout component, let’s understand the default layout that comes with a Blazor project. The MainLayout.razor file within the Shared folder is the default layout for every new Blazor project, so if we open that file, we are going to notice the following:

@inherits LayoutComponentBase<div class="page"&gt...