Introducing Blazor
Blazor is an open-source web UI SPA framework. That’s a lot of buzzwords in the same sentence, but simply put, it means that you can create interactive SPA web applications using HTML, CSS, and C# with full support for bindings, events, forms and validation, dependency injection, debugging, and much more. We will take a look at these in this book.
In 2017, Steve Sanderson (well-known for creating the Knockout JavaScript framework and who works for the ASP.NET team at Microsoft) was about to do a session called Web Apps can’t really do *that*, can they? at the developer conference NDC Oslo.
But Steve wanted to show a cool demo, so he thought, would it be possible to run C# in WebAssembly? He found an old inactive project on GitHub called Dot Net Anywhere, which was written in C and used tools (similar to what we just did) to compile the C code into WebAssembly.
He got a simple console app running inside the browser. This would have been...
