What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing Blazor, gRPC, and Source Generators, focuses on providing an introduction to the Blazor WebAssembly framework, gRPC technology, and source generators.

Chapter 2, Creating a Blazor WebAssembly Application, covers Blazor WebAssembly and Razor components. It shows you how to create two-way data binding, pass values deeper to the components, and re-render components when needed.

Chapter 3, Creating a Database Using Entity Framework Core, covers using Entity Framework Core as a database provider and creating code-first database structures. The topic of mapping objects between each other is also explored.

Chapter 4, Connecting Client and Server with REST API, covers creating endpoints in the Blazor application and exposing the REST endpoints for the client part of the application. The topic of generic Razor components and how to consume REST API within them is also covered.

Chapter 5, Building gRPC Services, explores two options for implementing gRPC in .NET projects, in addition to the syntax of a protocol buffer language.

Chapter 6, Diving Deep into Source Generators, covers the topic of creating source generators to generate some code for us with the aim of easing the development process. Parts of code that can or cannot be generated will also be explained.

Chapter 7, Best Practices for C# and gRPC, covers the code-first approach for gRPC and discusses why gRPC can’t replace REST API.