Storing data on the server side

There are many different ways in which to store data on the server side. The only thing to remember is that Blazor WebAssembly (or InteractiveWebAssembly) will always need an API. Blazor Server (or InteractiveServer) doesn’t need an API since we can access the server-side resources directly.

I have had discussions with many developers regarding APIs or direct access, which all boils down to what you intend to do with the application. If you are building a Blazor Server application and have no interest in moving to Blazor WebAssembly, I would probably go for direct access, as we have done in the MyBlog project.

I would not do direct database queries in the components, though. I would keep them in an API, just not a Web API. As we have seen, exposing those API functions in an API, as we did in Chapter 7, Creating an API, does not require a lot of steps. We can always start with direct server access and move to an API if we want to.

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