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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)

Building gRPC Services

By having a functional REST API implemented in our MediaLibrary application, we now have a fully functional website. While we can be satisfied with this state, we can also improve the performance of the application by switching from REST to gRPC services and bringing a more powerful communication protocol into our Blazor WebAssembly application.

In this chapter, we will learn how to create gRPC services in C# and how to consume them in the Blazor WebAssembly application. We will learn more about .proto files and present two ways of implementing gRPC in .NET applications. We will cover some advantages and disadvantages of both approaches.

Then, we will learn how to create Blazor components to consume gRPC services in a generic way.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand how gRPC works, the syntax of a Google Protocol Buffer language, and how to implement the services in C#. You will also learn how to consume these services from Blazor WebAssembly...