You're reading from Blazor WebAssembly by Example, 2e Use practical projects to start building web apps with .NET 7, Blazor WebAssembly, and C#

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803241852

Length 438 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Toi B. Wright

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Blazor WebAssembly FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Your First Blazor WebAssembly Application

3. Debugging and Deploying a Blazor WebAssembly App

4. Building a Modal Dialog Using Templated Components

5. Building a Local Storage Service Using JavaScript Interoperability (JS Interop)

6. Building a Weather App as a Progressive Web App (PWA)

7. Building a Shopping Cart Using Application State

8. Building a Kanban Board Using Events

9. Uploading and Reading an Excel File

10. Using Azure Active Directory to Secure a Blazor WebAssembly Application

11. Building a Task Manager Using ASP.NET Web API

12. Building an Expense Tracker Using the EditForm Component

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

14. Index

Understanding the difference between authentication and authorization

Authentication and authorization are the two sides of the same security coin. Authentication is the process of obtaining credentials from a user to verify the identity of the user. Authorization is the process of checking the privileges for the user to access specific resources.

Authentication always precedes authorization.

Figure 10.1: Authentication vs Authorization

The preceding image illustrates the difference between authentication and authorization. The left-hand side of the image shows a sample login screen that is used to determine who the user is. The right-hand side of the image shows the list of groups or roles that the user does or does not belong to, which is used to determine what the user can do.

Authentication

Blazor provides the RemoteAuthenticatorView component to make creating the various authentication pages easier. This component persists and controls state across authentication...