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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

Discovering Blazor’s built-in input components

We have a developed our first form using HTML input elements, and everything went well, but Blazor has its own set of input components that give us better control and more features. In this section, we will discover those components and upgrade our form to be more efficient.

The built-in input components automatically update the CSS class of the input based on the validation state, so we can easily apply styles for the invalid elements. We will have a closer look at that in the next section.

So, let’s deep-dive into our components.

InputText

The first input component to visit is InputText. This gets rendered into the <input type="text" /> HTML element. Going back to our form from the previous section, we will upgrade the input of Title and the input of Author to use the InputText component, as shown here:

...<div class="form-group mt-1">
      &...