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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)

Summary

After reading this chapter, you should know about the Blazor framework and the benefits of using this framework for C# developers over other SPA JavaScript frameworks, because you can use the same language for both frontend and backend development.

We also covered how gRPC is better than, and can replace, the REST API in terms of the growing popularity and platform neutrality, and also lower network usage. You should also have some idea about how source generators can ease development.

Thus, you are now ready to start developing Blazor WebAssembly SPA applications and inspecting the code that goes into the compilation process. You can read .proto files and use them for gRPC communication, for better performance compared to REST.

In the next chapter, we will cover Razor components and syntax, look at page routing, and introduce an overview of our demo project.