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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)

How does communication work in gRPC?

gRPC supports four types of communication: unary, client streaming, server streaming, and bi-directional streaming (sometimes called full-duplex). You can see the communication schema in the following diagram:

Figure 5.1 – A diagram of the gRPC communication types

Here are the definitions of each communication type:

  • Unary communication is the standard form of communication in REST. It represents a request from the client and then a response from the server.
  • Client streaming represents the client being able to send multiple messages to the server. When the client sends the last message, the server responds with a single response.
  • Server streaming is the opposite of client streaming. The client sends a single request and the server responds with multiple messages.
  • Bi-directional streaming is the combination of client and server streaming methods. The client and server are sending messages to each...