Introduction to Blazor

Get introduced to the concepts we will learn in this chapter.

We'll cover the following

Overview

Blazor WebAssembly is Microsoft’s new single-page application (SPA) framework for building web applications on .NET Framework. It enables developers to run C# code on the client. Therefore, instead of being forced to use JavaScript on the browser, we can now use C# on the browser.

In this chapter, we will develop web applications using Blazor WebAssembly. We will discuss the two different Blazor hosting models and present the advantages of using Blazor WebAssembly over Blazor Server. Finally, we will guide through the process of setting up our computer to complete the projects in this course.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Benefits of using the Blazor framework
  • Differences between the two hosting models
  • What is WebAssembly?
  • Setting up your PC