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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 data repository using EF

Each data-driven application needs a place to store data. Using the filesystem can be enough for one application but is not a good option when multiple requests access the same data. This choice is also not the fastest.

Modern applications use databases to store data. These can be relational databases such as MSSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, or Oracle Database, or NoSQL databases such as Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra. In our demo project, we will use the MSSQL database because it is one of the most commonly used databases for applications written in C#.

However, the database itself is the only place where data is stored and comprises a set of mechanisms for how data is handled when we want to create, read, update, or delete any record. Each application needs a connector that will open the communication between the application and the database and transform data from the database to make it readable in the application.

Installing NuGet packages

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