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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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Building an Expense Tracker Using the EditForm Component

Most applications require some data input by the user. The Blazor WebAssembly framework includes a component that makes it easy to create data input forms and validate the data on those forms.

In this chapter, we will learn how to use the EditForm component and the various built-in input components. We will also learn how to use the built-in input validation components in conjunction with Data Annotations to validate the data on the form. Finally, we will learn how to use the NavigationLock component to prevent users from losing their edits if they navigate away from the form before they have saved their updates.

The project that we’ll create in this chapter will be a travel expense tracker. We will use a multi-project architecture to separate the Blazor WebAssembly app from the ASP.NET Web API endpoints. The page used to add and edit expenses will use the EditForm component as well as many of the built-in input...