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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

Setting up your development environment

In this book, the focus will be on Windows development and any screenshots are going to be from Visual Studio (unless stated otherwise). But since .NET 5 is cross-platform, we will go through how to set up your development environment on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The go-to link for all the platforms can be found at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/.

From the web page, we can download Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio for Mac.

Windows

On Windows, we have many different options for developing Blazor applications. Visual Studio 2019 is the most powerful tool we can use.

There are three different editions, which are as follows:

  • Community 2019
  • Professional 2019
  • Enterprise 2019

In short, the Community Edition is free while the others cost money. The Community Edition does have some limitations and we can compare the different editions here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/compare/.

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