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N. VermeirIntroducing .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7319-7_5

5. Blazor

Nico Vermeir1  
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Merchtem, Belgium
 

Blazor, the new kid on the block in the web frontend world since 2018. It understandably gets compared to the likes of Angular, React, and Vue all the time, but it is a whole other beast. For starters, Blazor is not JavaScript based; it is .NET based.

Blazor, in its pure web form, has two flavors. There is Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. No matter what version you prefer, the development experience is the same; you use C# and HTML to build your frontend application. But, haven’t we tried this before? Wasn’t there something called Silverlight ...

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