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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have moved components into a shared library and used that library with both our Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly projects.

Using shared libraries like this is the way to create shared libraries (for others to use) and it is also a great way to structure our in-house projects (so that it is easy to change from Blazor Server to Blazor WebAssembly, or the other way around). If you have a site already, you can build your Blazor components in a shared library, as we did in the chapter.

By using components as part of your existing site (using Blazor Server), you can get started with Blazor bit by bit until you have converted the whole thing. When that is done, you can decide whether or not to keep using Blazor Server (as I mentioned, we use Blazor Server at work) or move to Blazor WebAssembly.

We also learned how we can use dependency injection to use different ways of accessing data depending on the platform. And last but not least, we talked about...