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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

Deploying a Blazor WebAssembly app to Microsoft Azure

Deploying a Blazor WebAssembly app using Visual Studio is quite simple. There is an easy-to-follow wizard that is included in Visual Studio. These are the steps for deploying a Blazor WebAssembly app to Microsoft Azure using Visual Studio 2022:

  1. Right-click the project and select Publish from the menu.

    This is the first page of the Publish wizard:

    Figure 3.13: First page of Publish wizard

    As you can see, there are many options provided. For this project, we will be publishing the application to the Microsoft cloud.

  1. Select Azure and click the Next button.

    This is the second page of the Publish wizard:

    Figure 3.14: Second page of Publish wizard

  1. Select Azure App Service (Windows) and click the Next button.

    This is the last page of the Publish wizard. This page is used to select the Azure App Service to use for the application. You can also use this page to...