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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

What is state management?

When consumers use your software, they perform certain tasks that the application enables, such as adding items to a shopping cart, filling in forms, dragging events to a calendar, and more. These kinds of tasks produce data, and this data can be stored permanently (in a database on the server via an API; you can learn more about that in detail in Chapter 8, Consuming Web APIs from Blazor WebAssembly) or we can hold this state temporarily in a local source. In this chapter, we are focusing on the second option, which is storing the data temporarily, but before we proceed with doing that, let’s understand the difference between storing on the server or locally, in addition to when to do so and why.

Basically, your software produces data, and this data can be stored in a database on the server. In the case of our bookstore, we need to store books on the server and retrieve them from there.

While developing with Blazor WebAssembly, your app needs...