You're reading from Web Development with Blazor - Third Edition

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835465912

Pages 366 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Author (1):

Jimmy Engström

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello Blazor

2. Creating Your First Blazor App

3. Managing State – Part 1

4. Understanding Basic Blazor Components

5. Creating Advanced Blazor Components

6. Building Forms with Validation

7. Creating an API

8. Authentication and Authorization

9. Sharing Code and Resources

10. JavaScript Interop

11. Managing State – Part 2

12. Debugging the Code

13. Testing

14. Deploying to Production

15. Moving from, or Combining with, an Existing Site

16. Going Deeper into WebAssembly

17. Examining Source Generators

18. Visiting .NET MAUI

19. Where to Go from Here

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Hello Blazor

Thank you for picking up your copy of Web Development with Blazor. This book intends to get you started as quickly and smoothly as possible, chapter by chapter, without you having to read this book from cover to cover before getting your Blazor on.

This book will start by guiding you through the most common scenarios you’ll come across when you begin your journey with Blazor and will also dive into a few more advanced scenarios later on. This book aims to show you what Blazor is – Blazor Server, Blazor WebAssembly, Blazor Hybrid, and on top of that, the new Server-Side Rendering (SSR) – and how it all works practically to help you avoid traps.

This is the book’s third edition; much has happened since the first edition. .NET 6 and .NET 7 were released, and for the second edition, I updated the content to reflect the changes and the new functionality we got.

This edition has been updated to include all the new things in .NET 8, and let me tell you, that is a lot.

I do Blazor presentations all over the world, and there are common questions that I get asked a lot. Without going into too much detail, they are often related to download size or time when it comes to Blazor WebAssembly and continuous connection to Blazor Server. In .NET 8, we can leverage a new mode, SSR, that solves all of these problems in one swift blow. Okay, maybe not all problems, but we are well on our way to solving them. A common belief is that Blazor is WebAssembly, but WebAssembly is just one way of running Blazor. Many books, workshops, and blog posts on Blazor focus heavily on WebAssembly.

This book will cover Blazor WebAssembly, Blazor Server, Blazor Hybrid, and SSR. There are a few differences between the different ways of running Blazor; I will point them out as we go along.

This first chapter will explore where Blazor came from, what technologies made Blazor possible, and the different ways of running Blazor. We will also touch on which type (Blazor WebAssembly, Blazor Server, or Blazor Hybrid) is best for you.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: