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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

When and why we use JavaScript in Blazor apps

The main selling point of Blazor is that it lets us build modern web applications using C# instead of JavaScript and that’s 100% true, but the presence of capabilities in the browser that have been built around JavaScript for many years makes the use of JavaScript mandatory in some cases.

Blazor already uses JavaScript behind the scenes in its engine, for example, to manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM), access some special features in the browser such as local storage, and even deal with files.

Because of the length of use of JavaScript in web development compared to Blazor, there are thousands of packages and tools that have been built using JavaScript over the years by corporates and open source contributors, including rich text editors, image croppers, and stuff like that. Having the ability to communicate with JavaScript from Blazor gives you the power to leverage those utilities directly out of the box instead of...