Become a full-stack web developer using the Microsoft Blazor framework and the techniques shown in this book. This new edition will have you building all kinds of applications in C# and Microsoft .NET 8, from static web sites to fully interactive single page applications, and desktop and mobile applications, in no time.

At it’s core, this book teaches you to build user interfaces and present data to a user for display and modification, capturing the user’s changes via data binding. The book shows you how to access a rich library of .NET functionality such as a component modeling for building composable user interfaces―including developing reusable components that can be used across many pages and websites. New for this edition, the book now covers server communication using SignalR and/or gRPC, the use of virtualization to load large quantities of data efficiently, deployment and ahead-of-time compilation into WASM, new unit testing features, security using OpenID Connect, and more features added in Blazor in .NET 8.

At it’s core, Blazor provides a fresh take on web development by eliminating the need to learn different languages and frameworks for client- and server-side development. It also allows C# and .NET to be used on all sides―both server-side and client-side―providing a robust feature set that is well suited toward scalable, enterprise-level applications. With Blazor you can use all your experience in .NET 8 along with thousands of existing libraries, right in the browser. This book gets you proficient using this important toolkit for web application development.

What You Will Learn

• Build user interfaces and display data for users to edit
• Capture user edits and changes via data binding
• Transfer data back and forth between server and client
• Communicate with services using REST, SignalR, or gRPC
• Develop reusable components and assemble them into bigger components
• Use routing to build single-page applications (SPAs)
• Build stable and maintainable software using unit testing
• Internationalize your application to reach more users
• Secure your Blazor application with OpenID Connect
• Build static interactive pages web pages optimized for SEO
• Use the same components to build mobile and desktop applications

Peter Himschoot works as a lead trainer, architect, and strategist at U2U. He has a wide interest in software development that includes applications for the web, Windows, and mobile devices. He has trained thousands of developers, is a regular speaker at international conferences, and has been involved in many web and mobile development projects as a software architect. He has been a Microsoft Regional Director (from 2003 to 2019) tasked with advising developer and IT professional audiences, as well as Microsoft.