September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
324 pages
8h 19m
English
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Preface
Welcome to Learning Blazor. You’re probably here because you’ve heard some cool things about Blazor and you want to try it out. So, what is it? Blazor is an open source web framework for building interactive client-side web UI components using C# (pronounced “see sharp”), HTML, and cascading style sheets (CSS).1 As a feature of ASP.NET Core, Blazor extends the .NET developer platform with tools and libraries for building web apps.
WebAssembly enables numerous non-JavaScript-based programming languages to run on the browser. Blazor takes full advantage of WebAssembly and allows C# developers to build UI components and client-side experiences with .NET. Blazor is a single-page application (SPA) framework, similar to Angular, React, VueJS, and Svelte, for example, but it’s based on C# instead of JavaScript.
Okay, it’s a web framework, but what makes it different from any other client-side framework for building web UI?
Why Blazor?
Blazor is a game-changer for .NET developers and web developers alike! In this book, you’ll learn how you can use the Blazor WebAssembly hosting model to create compelling real-time web experiences. There are seemingly countless reasons to choose Blazor as your next web app development framework. Let’s start with what it does for web development.
Back in the early ’90s, surfing the web was like reading a series of linked text documents—basic HTML. It was hardly an immersive or cohesive experience. When CSS and JavaScript came onto the scene, the ...
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