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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)

Generated code can be harder to debug

In Chapter 6, Diving Deep into Source Generators, we looked at a simple generator that can do a lot of stuff for us. Generating hundreds of service classes can save us time that we can spend typing better code.

However, I did not mention anything about debugging the generator itself because we did not need to. In the real world, the code that we create will not run perfectly on the first run every time. So, what are our options in terms of debugging the source generators?

Exploring generated code

We can explore generated code right from Visual Studio. The generated code is located in the project referencing the generator, not in the generator itself, under Dependencies | Analyzers. Here, you can see the project attached as a generator by its project name. Inside is our list of all generators created in the project and for each generator, there’s a list of generated files.

What I am talking about is not purely a debugging method...