Summary
After completing this chapter, you should understand the benefits of using Blazor WebAssembly versus other web development frameworks and be prepared to complete the projects in this book.
In this chapter, we introduced the Blazor framework. The Blazor framework is built on .NET Framework and allows developers to use C# on both the frontend and backend of a web app.
After that, we compared Blazor Server with Blazor WebAssembly. Blazor WebAssembly has many advantages over Blazor Server due to the fact that it runs on the browser while Blazor Server runs on the server. A Blazor WebAssembly web app can run offline and feels much more like a native application because all of the code is run directly on the browser. Finally, a Blazor WebAssembly app can be easily converted into a PWA.
In the last part of the chapter, we explained how to set up your computer with Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition, .NET 5.0, and SQL Server 2019 Express, all of which are required to complete...
