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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)

Summary

After reading this chapter, you should know the syntax of the Google Protocol Buffer language, version 3. You should also know how to define messages and services in this language.

We also covered multiple options for implementing the gRPC services in the C# projects. We used the standard way of implementing the services using .proto files.

By now, you should be able to create gRPC services and consume them in the Blazor components. You should also know more about the nullable types in the gRPC and how to tell the protobuf compiler to generate client and server implementation from the .proto files.

In the next chapter, we will take a closer look at the source generators. We will define the classes that can be automatically generated for us and which we better type for ourselves.