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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

Persisting the state in the browser’s local storage

Most modern browsers have built-in mechanisms for storing data. This storage is local storage, which is used to store the data for the application across tabs. Even after closing the browser and opening it multiple times, the data stays there.

Another option is session storage, which stores the data for a specific session in a single browser tab. If the user reloads the tab, the data persists, but each tab has its own data for the app and the data is not shared across tabs. Also, browsers have a built-in web API to store a significant number of objects in the JSON format, called IndexedDB. This is an additional option for local and session storage and a very good choice for storing records of data and querying them offline during the app’s lifetime.

Now, let’s go over a practical example of storing the data in local storage.

In the following practice, we are going to implement a great feature in our BooksStore...