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Web Development with Blazor

You're reading from   Web Development with Blazor A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241494
Length 360 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jimmy Engström Jimmy Engström
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello Blazor 2. Creating Your First Blazor App FREE CHAPTER 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. Deploy to Production 15. Moving from, or Combining, 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

Figuring out where to put the code

We have seen examples of writing code directly in the Razor file. I prefer doing that unless the code gets too complicated. I always lean in favor of readability.

There are four ways we can write our components:

  • In the Razor file
  • In a partial class
  • Inheriting a class
  • Only code

Let’s go through each item on this list in more detail.

In the Razor file

If we are writing a file that is not that complex, it would be nice not to switch files when writing components. As we already covered in this chapter, we can use the @code directive to add code directly to our Razor file.

If we want to move the code to a code-behind file, then it is only the directives that we need to change. For the rest of the code, we can just move to the code-behind class. When I started with Blazor, writing code and markup in the same file felt strange, but I suggest you try it out when developing your web apps.

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