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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

Consuming JavaScript in Blazor

By this point, we have developed components to render data and capture the user’s input and written logic and navigate between pages, all purely with C#, and that’s the big promise of Blazor. But a little bit of JavaScript is kind of needed in some cases.

Throughout this chapter, we are going to discover those cases with some real-world examples, along with the IJSRuntime interface, which is a Blazor built-in service that allows communication between C# and JavaScript and vice versa.

This chapter will cover everything you need to know about JavaScript in Blazor apps:

  • When and why we use JavaScript in Blazor apps
  • Calling JavaScript from C# code
  • Calling C# from JavaScript code
  • Turning an existing JS package into a reusable Blazor component