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Blazor WebAssembly by Example, 2e - Second Edition

By : Toi B. Wright
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Blazor WebAssembly by Example, 2e - Second Edition

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By: Toi B. Wright

Overview of this book

Blazor WebAssembly helps developers build web applications without the need for JavaScript, plugins, or add-ons. With its continued growth in popularity, getting started with Blazor now can open doors to new career paths and exciting projects – and Blazor WebAssembly by Example will make your first steps easier. This is a project-based guide that will teach you how to build single-page web applications with Blazor, focusing heavily on the practical over the theoretical by providing detailed step-by-step instructions for each project. The author also includes a video for each project showing her following the step-by-step instructions, so readers can use them if they're unsure about any particular step. In this updated edition, you'll start by building simple standalone web applications and gradually progress to developing more advanced hosted web applications with SQL Server backends. Each project will cover a different aspect of the Blazor WebAssembly ecosystem, such as Razor components, JavaScript interop, security, event handling, debugging on the client, application state, and dependency injection. The book’s projects get more challenging as you progress, but you don’t have to complete them in order, which makes this book a valuable resource for beginners as well as those who just want to dip into specific topics. By the end of this book, you will have experience and lots of know-how on how to build a wide variety of single-page web applications with .NET, Blazor WebAssembly, and C#.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Summary

After completing this chapter, you should understand the benefits of using Blazor WebAssembly versus other Blazor hosting models and be prepared to complete the projects in this book.

In this chapter, we introduced the Blazor framework. The Blazor framework is built on .NET Framework and allows web developers to use C# on both the client and the server of a web app.

After that, we compared Blazor WebAssembly with both Blazor Server and Blazor Hybrid. All three hosting models are used to host Razor components. They each have their own advantages and disadvantages. We prefer Blazor WebAssembly.

In the last part of the chapter, we explained how to set up your computer with Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition, .NET 7.0, and Microsoft SQL Server Express and how to open a Microsoft Azure account, all of which are required to complete the projects in this book.

Now that your computer is set up to complete the projects in this book, it is time to get started. In the next chapter, you will create your first Blazor WebAssembly web app.