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Web Development with Blazor - Third Edition
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Web Development with Blazor - Third Edition

by Jimmy Engström
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
7h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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17

Examining Source Generators

In this chapter, we will look at writing code that generates code. Even though this chapter isn’t directly related to Blazor development, it still has a connection to Blazor, as we’ll discover.

The subject of source generators is a book on its own, but I wanted to introduce it since they are used by Blazor and, honestly, it is one of my favorite features.

I am the kind of person that spends a day writing source code that saves me 10 minutes if I know I will need to repeat those 10 minutes over and over again. Repetitive tasks have never been a favorite of mine.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • What a source generator is
  • How to get started with source generators
  • Community projects

The idea for this ...

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