2 Your first Blazor app

This chapter covers

  • Choosing the right project template for your application
  • Building and running your application
  • Understanding the key parts of your application
  • Writing your first components

After reading chapter 1, you should have a good idea of what Blazor is and how it works. You should also now understand the concept of hosting models and have some compelling reasons why you might want to choose Blazor for your next project. But so far, we’ve only talked in theory. We still need to get our hands dirty building something with Blazor, and that’s going to happen in this chapter.

We’re going to create the application that we’ll be building throughout the rest of the book—Blazing Trails! The app will allow walkers to ...

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