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

Using Azure Active Directory to Secure a Blazor WebAssembly Application

Security is important. Most applications require each user to provide their credentials before they can access all the functionality supplied by the application. Managing usernames, passwords, roles, and groups can be tedious and complicated. Using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) makes it easy. Azure AD is an identity provider in the cloud.

The project that we create in this chapter will allow the user to view the claims provided by the token that is returned from Azure AD after the user is authenticated by Azure AD. We will be using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) to acquire JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) from Azure AD. We will be using Open ID Connect (OIDC) endpoints to authenticate users. OIDC is a simple identity layer built on the industry standard OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows clients to verify the identity of a user based on the authentication performed by an identity provider, such as Duende...