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Blazor WebAssembly by Example, 2e - Second Edition

By : Toi B. Wright
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Book Image

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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14
Index

Technical requirements

To complete this project, you need to have Visual Studio 2022 installed on your PC. For instructions on how to install the free Community Edition of Visual Studio 2022, refer to Chapter 1, Introduction to Blazor WebAssembly.

We will be using an external weather API to access the weather forecast data for our project. The API that we will be using is the OpenWeather One Call API. This is a free API that is provided by OpenWeather (https://openweathermap.org). To get started with this API, you need to create an account and obtain an API key. If you do not want to create an account, you can use the weather.json file that we have provided in the GitHub repository for this chapter.

The source code for this chapter is available in the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Blazor-WebAssembly-by-Example-Second-Edition/tree/main/Chapter06.

The code in action video is available here: TBD.