Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Web Development with Blazor

You're reading from   Web Development with Blazor A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835465912
Length 366 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Jimmy Engström Jimmy Engström
Author Profile Icon Jimmy Engström
Jimmy Engström
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello Blazor 2. Creating Your First Blazor App FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing State – Part 1 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 – Part 2 12. Debugging the Code 13. Testing 14. Deploying to Production 15. Moving from, or Combining with, an Existing Site 16. Going Deeper into WebAssembly 17. Examining Source Generators 18. Visiting .NET MAUI 19. Where to Go from Here 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Implementing an existing JavaScript library

The best approach, in my opinion, is to avoid porting JavaScript libraries. Blazor needs to keep the DOM and the render tree in sync, and having JavaScript manipulate the DOM can jeopardize that.

Most component vendors, such as Telerik, Synfusion, Radzen, and, of course, Blazm, have native components. They don’t just wrap JavaScript but are explicitly written for Blazor in C#. Even though the components use JavaScript in some capacity, the goal is to keep that to a minimum.

So, if you are a library maintainer, my recommendation would be to write a native Blazor version of the library, keep JavaScript to a minimum, and, most importantly, not force Blazor developers to write JavaScript to use your components.

Some components will be unable to use JavaScript implementations since they need to manipulate the DOM.

Blazor is pretty smart when syncing the DOM and render tree, but try to avoid manipulating the DOM. If you...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime