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Web Development with Blazor
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Web Development with Blazor

by Jimmy Engström
June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
5h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7: Creating an API

Blazor WebAssembly needs to be able to retrieve data and also change our data. For that to work, we need to have an API with which we can access the database. In this chapter, we will create a Web API.

When we are using Blazor Server, the API will be secured together with the page (if we add an Authorize attribute), so we get that for free. But with WebAssembly, everything will be executed in the browser, so we need something that WebAssembly can communicate with to update the database on the server.

To do this, we will cover need to cover three topics. In this chapter, we will cover the first two:

  • Creating the service
  • Creating the client

The third topic is Calling the API, but we won't cover that part in this chapter; ...

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