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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835465912
Length 366 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jimmy Engström Jimmy Engström
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello Blazor FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Blazor App 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

Understanding dependency injection

DI is a software pattern and a technique to implement Inversion of Control (IoC).

IoC is a generic term that means we can indicate that the class needs a class instance instead of letting our classes instantiate an object. We can say that our class wants either a specific class or a specific interface.

The creation of the class is somewhere else, and it is up to IoC what class it will create.

When it comes to DI, it is a form of IoC when an object (class instance) is passed through constructors, parameters, or service lookups.

Here is a great resource if you want to dive deeper into DI in .NET: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/dependency-injection.

In Blazor, we can configure DI by providing a way to instantiate an object; this is a key architecture pattern that we should use. We have already seen a couple of references to it, for example, in Program.cs:

builder.Services.AddScoped<IBlogApi, BlogApiJsonDirectAccess...
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