Summary

In this chapter, we've learned about the concepts behind the different types of Blazor hosting model. We've identified the goal of the application that we are going to build while learning about Blazor, and we've identified the various technologies needed to reach it. We started creating the backend application using the ASP.NET Core API, and we saw how we can easily configure test data, without having to set up a real database, using Entity Framework Core's in-memory provider feature. This enables us to easily spin up data-driven applications when doing proof-of-concept (POC) projects. We also learned how to create simple REST Web APIs to serve data and learned how to configure SignalR to perform real-time updates. Understanding the basic concepts of the technologies and frameworks used in this chapter is very important to successfully working with real applications.

We've learned that both of the Blazor models we saw in this chapter are great...