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Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

By : Václav Pekárek
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Book Image

Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

5 (1)
By: Václav Pekárek

Overview of this book

Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC will take you to the next level in your web development career. After working through all the essentials of gRPC, Blazor, and source generators, you will be far from a beginner C# developer and would qualify as a developer with intermediate knowledge of the Blazor ecosystem. After a quick primer on the basics of Blazor technology, REST, gRPC, and source generators, you’ll dive straight into building Blazor WASM applications. You’ll learn about everything from two-way bindings and Razor syntax to project setup. The practical emphasis continues throughout the book as you steam through creating data repositories, working with REST, and building and registering gRPC services. The chapters also cover how to manage source generators, C# and debugging best practices, and more. There is no shorter path than this book to solidify your gRPC-enabled web development knowledge. By the end of this book, your knowledge of building Blazor applications with one of the most modern and powerful frameworks around will equip you with a highly sought-after skill set that you can leverage in the best way possible.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Using the Blazor framework to create websites

The Blazor framework can be used in different hosting models. Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and Hybrid hosting models are supported, and each of them has different use cases and advantages and disadvantages.

The Server hosting model uses SignalR technology to send data from the client to the server. Then the server does the work and sends back the data required to update the UI of the application.

The WebAssembly hosting model has its client part of the application downloaded to the client with all the binaries needed to run the application. The WebAssembly application then does all the work on the client’s computer. This approach is faster but requires downloading larger files to the client. Since the end of 2017, all major browsers support WebAssembly, including mobile browsers. For old browsers, WebAssembly needs to be compiled to asm.js by JavaScript polyfill.

The Blazor Hybrid model can also be used to blend the desktop...