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Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

By : Václav Pekárek
5 (1)
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)

Diving Deep into Source Generators

We started our journey in this book with an empty folder, within which we went on to create a Blazor WebAssembly application. Then, we added generic services to manipulate data and generic controllers to provide a REST API. Then, in Chapter 5, Building gRPC Services, we integrated the gRPC services that enable our Blazor WebAssembly application to communicate faster between the client and server parts of the application. So, it would not be wrong to say that we have built a functional application. And while it is true, there is always something that we can do better. In this chapter, we will take a look at an option that may speed up our development process: source generators.

As the name implies, source generators can generate source code for our application. In this chapter, we will learn what we can and can’t do with source generators, how to write our generators, and how to consume the generated code. We will also take a look at the...