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Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

By : Václav Pekárek
5 (1)
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)

gRPC is not the new REST

We used REST with gRPC in our MediaLibrary application in Chapter 4, Connecting Client and Server with REST API. So, why am I saying that we can’t replace every REST API with gRPC? Remember the main reason mentioned in Chapter 5, Building gRPC Services: gRPC is not widely supported in browsers. Also, not every programming language has support for this feature.

The REST API uses XML or JSON format to communicate between the client and server. These formats are human-readable and supported in probably every programming language that we can imagine.

REST has become a standard to provide APIs to communicate between applications. Nowadays, XML format is supported mostly only for backward compatibility; every new API is written to primarily support JSON format.

Note

When creating an API in .NET, JSON format is used to format requests and responses. You can support XML format by just adding one line of code to the ConfigureServices method in the...