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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

Why do we need JavaScript?

Many say Blazor is the JavaScript killer, but the truth is that Blazor needs JavaScript to work. Some events only get triggered in JavaScript, and if we want to use those events, we need to make an interop.

I jokingly say that I have never written so much JavaScript as when I started developing with Blazor. it’s not that bad.

I have written a couple of libraries that require JavaScript to work. They are called Blazm.Components and Blazm.Bluetooth.

The first one is a grid component that uses JavaScript interop to trigger C# code (JavaScript to .NET) when the window is resized, to remove columns if they can’t fit inside the window.

When that is triggered, the C# code calls JavaScript to get the size of the columns based on the client width, which only the web browser knows, and based on that answer, it removes columns if needed.

The second one, Blazm.Bluetooth, makes it possible to interact with Bluetooth devices using Web...

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