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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)

Connecting Client and Server with REST API

Having built the server side of our application, which can provide data for our Blazor WebAssembly application, we need to create some components that can consume the data. We can create these in a non-generic way and type a lot of code, or create generic components that will handle the same logic for each entity we have already created.

In this chapter, we will learn how to create Blazor components with generic parameters and how we can benefit from them in our application. We will also learn how to create the API endpoint to provide the data for our application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Exposing CRUD operations in API controllers
  • Consuming a REST API in Blazor components