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Web Development with Blazor

You're reading from   Web Development with Blazor A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241494
Length 360 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jimmy Engström Jimmy Engström
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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. Deploy to Production 15. Moving from, or Combining, 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

Exploring Custom Elements

To be able to bring Blazor into an existing Angular or React site we use a feature called CustomElements. It was introduced as an experimental feature in .NET 6 and is now part of the framework in .NET 7.

The idea is to be able to create parts of your site in Blazor without having to go fully over to Blazor.

For this feature to work we need to have an ASP.NET backend or manually make sure the _framework files are available. This is so that we can serve the Blazor framework files we need to get it running.

There are two ways of running CustomElements we can run it as Blazor WebAssembly or as Blazor Server.

Since we are adding Blazor to a client framework like React or Angular I think the most relevant example is to run it as Blazor WebAssembly, therefore the samples in these first sections will be for Blazor WebAssembly.

In the GitHub repo, there is a folder called CustomElements, in that folder, you will find the code for the projects we will see sample code...

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