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Introducing Blazor, gRPC, and Source Generators

Let us start our journey in this book by first getting to know our three main technological co-travelers: Blazor, gRPC, and source generators.

The Blazor framework is an open source web framework developed by Microsoft. It is a free-to-use, single-page application (SPA) framework that enables a smooth development process while writing both the server and client parts of the application in .NET and C#. It can be used for dynamic websites but can also generate static websites without the need for expensive website hosting.

On the other hand, Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) is a multi-environment open source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework. It uses HTTP/2 for connecting services between ...

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