Web Development with Blazor (pdf)

Description

Key Features

• Get up to speed with Blazor fundamentals, actionable insights, and best practices
• Learn how to create and deploy a production-ready Blazor application
• Find out how, when, and why to use server-side Blazor and Blazor WebAssembly

Book Description

Gone are the days when creating interactive web pages would mean necessarily involving JavaScript. With Microsoft’s Blazor, a new way of creating .NET web apps, you can build rich and interactive web apps using C#.

Web Development with Blazor will guide you through the most common challenges in getting started with Blazor. You’ll start by learning how to leverage the power of Blazor and learn what you can do with both Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. By showing you how all the elements work together practically, the book will help you solve some of the common roadblocks that developers face. As you advance, you’ll learn how to create Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly projects, how Razor syntax works, and how to validate forms and create your own components. Later, the book introduces you to key concepts involved in web development with Blazor, which you will be able to put into practice straight away.

By the end of this Blazor book, you’ll have gained the confidence you need to create and deploy production-ready Blazor applications.

What you will learn

• Understand the different technologies that can be used with Blazor, such as Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly
• Find out how to build simple and advanced Blazor components
• Explore the differences between Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly projects
• Discover how Entity Framework works and build a simple API
• Get up to speed with components and find out how to create basic and advanced components
• Explore existing JavaScript libraries in Blazor
• Use techniques to debug your Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly applications
• Test Blazor components using bUnit

Who this book is for

This Blazor book is for .NET web developers and software developers who wish to build web UIs using C#. It assumes beginner-level knowledge of C# programming and intermediate-level web development skills.

Table of Contents

1. Hello Blazor
2. Creating Your First Blazor App
3. Introducing Entity Framework Core
4. Understanding Basic Blazor Components
5. Creating Advanced Blazor Components
6. Building Forms with Validation
7. Creating an API
8. Authentication and Authorization
9. Sharing Code and Resources
10. JavaScript Interop
11. Managing State
12. Debugging
13. Testing
14. Deploying to Production
15. Where to Go from Here