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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)

Creating a Database Using Entity Framework Core

A Blazor WebAssembly application can be made in the form of a static website without any dynamic data. In such a scenario, only the client part of the application is needed. In our case, we would like to present some data in our application, and therefore we need the server part of the Blazor WebAssembly application. This part will act like an application programming interface (API) providing data to our client.

In this chapter, we will learn how to create a data repository to store and manipulate data. We will learn about Entity Framework (EF), which is a great tool for the code-first database approach. We will cover some drawbacks of using EF over stored procedures, but also the advantages. We will also explore how to use the EF to create a database in a Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL).

We will then learn about C# generic to create generic classes and methods that can be reused and can save us a lot of code writing. Later, we will...