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Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

You're reading from   Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC Learn how to implement source generators and gRPC in your Blazor apps for better performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610558
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Václav Pekárek Václav Pekárek
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introducing Blazor, gRPC, and Source Generators 2. Chapter 2: Creating a Blazor WebAssembly Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating a Database Using Entity Framework Core 4. Chapter 4: Connecting Client and Server with REST API 5. Chapter 5: Building gRPC Services 6. Chapter 6: Diving Deep into Source Generators 7. Chapter 7: Best Practices for C# and gRPC 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the Blazor framework to create websites

The Blazor framework can be used in different hosting models. Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and Hybrid hosting models are supported, and each of them has different use cases and advantages and disadvantages.

The Server hosting model uses SignalR technology to send data from the client to the server. Then the server does the work and sends back the data required to update the UI of the application.

The WebAssembly hosting model has its client part of the application downloaded to the client with all the binaries needed to run the application. The WebAssembly application then does all the work on the client’s computer. This approach is faster but requires downloading larger files to the client. Since the end of 2017, all major browsers support WebAssembly, including mobile browsers. For old browsers, WebAssembly needs to be compiled to asm.js by JavaScript polyfill.

The Blazor Hybrid model can also be used to blend the desktop...

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