Setting up SignalR

In this section, we will build a simple chat application using SignalR. The chat application will allow users to send messages to a public chat room. The messages will be broadcast to all connected clients. This application contains four projects:

• ChatApp.Server: This is the ASP.NET Core web API project that provides a SignalR hub
• ChatApp.TypeScriptClient: This is a client application written in TypeScript
• ChatApp.BlazorClient: This is a client application written in Blazor, which is a web framework for building client-side applications using C#

Important note

The code of this sample is based on the official SignalR sample provided by Microsoft. You can find the original source code at https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR-samples/tree/main/ChatSample. We added the Blazor and MAUI clients to the sample.

The ChatApp.Server application is a simple ASP.NET Core web API application that is used to provide a SignalR hub. A SignalR hub is a class...