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Web Development with Blazor

By : Jimmy Engström
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Web Development with Blazor

By: Jimmy Engström

Overview of this book

Blazor is an essential tool if you want to build interactive web apps without JS, but it comes with its own learning curve. Web Development with Blazor will help you overcome most common challenges developers face when getting started with Blazor and teach you the best coding practices. You’ll start by learning how to leverage the power of Blazor and explore the full capabilities of both Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. Then you’ll move on to the practical part, which is centred around a sample project – a blog engine. This is where you’ll apply all your newfound knowledge about creating Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly projects, the inner working of Razor syntax, and validating forms, as well as creating your own components. You’ll learn all the key concepts involved in web development with Blazor, which you’ll also be able to put into practice straight away. By showing you how all the components work together practically, this book will help you avoid some of the common roadblocks that novice Blazor developers face and inspire you to start experimenting with Blazor on your other projects. When you reach the end of this Blazor book, you'll have gained the confidence you need to create and deploy production-ready Blazor applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Basics
4
Section 2:Building an Application with Blazor
14
Section 3:Debug, Test, and Deploy

Moving the components

We are going to move the components that we can share between the Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly projects. This is one of the amazing powers of Blazor; the only thing that differs between the two projects is the hosting model. The code can remain the same (for most cases).

In our case, we made sure to have different ways of accessing the data just to cover those possibilities as well, but we will come back to that in the next section.

First, we need to create a new project and move some files. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the MyBlog solution and select Add | New project.
  2. Search for Razor and you should find a template called Razor Class Library. Select that template and click Next.
  3. Name the project MyBlog.Shared, leave the location as is (it should be in the correct folder already), and then click Next.
  4. Select Target Framework .NET 5.0 (Current) and make sure Support pages and views are unchecked. Then...