Building Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Blazor: Learn how to use Blazor to create powerful, responsive, and engaging web applications

✍ Scribed by Brian Ding

• Publisher: BPB Publications
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Key Features:
- Explore the ins and outs of Blazor architecture and gain a comprehensive understanding of its components.
- Dive deep into the intricacies of Blazor deployment, ensuring smooth and successful launches.
- Uncover valuable tips and tricks for optimizing performance, ensuring scalability, and enhancing security.

Description:
Building Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Blazor is the ultimate guide to developing high-quality web applications with Blazor and .NET Core. Written by an experienced developer, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Blazor's architecture, components, deployment options, and best practices for optimizing performance and scalability.

It begins by introducing WebAssembly, the technology that makes Blazor possible. It then discusses the different hosting models available for Blazor applications. Next, the book covers the basics of building Blazor applications, including how to create components, handle user input, and navigate between pages. The book then delves into more advanced topics, such as uploading and downloading files, using .NET and jаvascript interoperability, connecting to the world with HTTP, persisting data with EF Core, and protecting your application with identity. Finally, the book shows you how to deploy your Blazor application with Docker and Kubernetes.

This book covers many different aspects of developing Blazor applications, a modern way to build rich UI web applications. And this book introduces how to leverage .NET and its eco-systems to build a modern enterprise application. This book will introduce WebAssembly and how it enables web applications to be written in any programming language. It also compares different Blazor hosting models and the strategy to select a model that suits that business requirements.

This book takes a demonstrative approach for Blazor learners. Every chapter comes with a lot of code examples and Blazor source code analysis. It covers basic Blazor directives and components and how these concepts can be combined together to build a more complex customized component. This book also explains some advanced techniques to control component rendering and improve performance.

This book is divided into 13 It will start with the introduction of WebAssembly and cover the basic concepts in Blazor Framework and some advanced techniques you may find handy when developing production-ready applications, as well as explaining source code structures and designing patterns and styles.

By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern, interactive web applications using Blazor and .NET Core.

What you will learn:
- Gain the ability to develop interactive web applications effortlessly, while building a strong sense of confidence.
- Get familiar with the components model, common design patterns, and solutions implemented in Blazor.
- Learn how to seamlessly integrate and reuse legacy code by leveraging jаvascript interop capabilities within Blazor.
- Discover optimization techniques and best practices for enhancing application performance and scalability.
- Develop a solid grasp of key concepts in .NET Core backend development, including protocols and middleware.

Who this book is for:
Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, this book will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to master Blazor and build powerful web applications. Familiarity with fundamental web development concepts, including HTML, CSS, and jаvascript, is assumed.

✦ Table of Contents

1. WebAssembly Introduction

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

What is WebAssembly

History of WebAssembly

Hello World with WebAssembly

Call WebAssembly from JavaScript

WebAssembly in the future

Popular WebAssembly languages

.NET Core

ASP.NET Core

When to choose ASP.NET Core Blazor

Conclusion

1. Choose Your Hosting Model

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

WebSocket

SignalR

Blazor Server

Blazor WebAssembly

Blazor Hybrid

Conclusion

1. Implementing Razor and Other Components

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Razor components

Directive

Directive Attribute

One-way Binding

Binding Event

Binding Format

Unparsed value

Two-way binding

Cascading

Event Handling

Lifecycle

Layout

Libraries

Fast-blazor

MatBlazor

Ant Design Blazor

BootstrapBlazor

Conclusion

1. Advanced Techniques for Blazor Component Enhancement

Introduction

Structure

Component Reference

Components preserving

Template components

CSS Isolation

Conclusion

1. File Uploading in Blazor

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Build comments for EShop

File transfer

File upload

Tips

Conclusion

1. Serving and Securing Files in Blazor

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Middleware

Serve Static Files

Serve Dynamic Files

Security Advice

Conclusion

1. Collecting User Input with Forms

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Forms

EditForm

InputBase

Validation

Custom Validation

Form submission

EditContext And Form State

Conclusion

1. Navigating Over Application

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Router

RouteAttribute

NavLink

Route parameters

Navigation events and Asynchronous navigation

ASP.NET Core integration

Conclusion

1. .NET and JavaScript Interop

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Serialization

Loading JavaScript

Initializer

Calling JavaScript from .NET

JavaScript isolation

Calling .NET from JavaScript

Cache

Element reference

Type safety

Conclusion

1. Connecting to the World with HTTP

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Front-end and back-end separation

HTTP protocol

CORS

HttpClient

HttpClientFactory

HttpClient again

gRPC

Conclusion

1. Data Persistence with EF Core

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Stateless and Stateful

EntityFramework Core

Context object

Data entities

Database migration

Data update

Data query

Conclusion

1. Protecting Your Application with Identity

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

Authentication

AuthenticationStateProvider

Authorization

Role-based Authorization

Policy-based Authorization

ASP.NET Core Identity

Conclusion

1. Deploying with Docker and Kubernetes

Introduction

Structure

Objectives

What is Docker

Building Docker Image

Image layer

What is K8S

K8S components

Deploy to AKS – K8S on Azure

Conclusion

Index