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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

Understanding hosted applications

When we create a new Blazor WebAssembly project by using Microsoft’s Blazor WebAssembly App Empty project template, we have the option to create a hosted Blazor WebAssembly app by checking the ASP.NET Core Hosted checkbox.

The following screenshot highlights the ASP.NET Core Hosted checkbox:

Figure 11.1: Blazor WebAssembly App Empty project template

The hosted Blazor WebAssembly app, created by the Blazor WebAssembly App Empty project template, includes the following three projects:

  • Client project
  • Server project
  • Shared project

Client project

The client project is a client-side Blazor WebAssembly project. It is almost identical to the standalone Blazor WebAssembly app we created in Chapter 2, Building Your First Blazor WebAssembly Application. The only big difference is in how the data is accessed. In the client project, the sample data is accessed from the server project using Web API endpoints...