Blazor

Learning Blazor

Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C#

David Pine

6 minute read

The Learning Blazor title book cover

In June 2021, I set out on a journey to write a book in the middle of a global pandemic. I had no idea what I was doing (all things considered, I still don’t know what I’m doing). But I do know that I truly enjoy helping others. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed writing it. Amazon Preview Foreword by Steve Sanderson Web development has been a dominating feature of the software industry for over 20 years and is likely to remain so for many years to come.

Blazorators

C# Source Generator for JavaScript Interop in Blazor

David Pine

5 minute read

The Blazorators logo

Blazorators Blazorators is a C# source generator that creates fully functioning Blazor JavaScript interop code, targeting either the IJSInProcessRuntime or IJSRuntime types. All of this code relies on the output of one of my side projects named blazorators. While writing my O’Reilly “Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C#” book, I discovered an impactful way to use both TypeScript type declarations from common JavaScript APIs and C# source generators to generate the JavaScript interop code.

Writing a Blazor App

A Practical WebAssembly Application In C#

David Pine

7 minute read

Every time a developer encounters a new technology it’s in our nature to explore it. This is the case with WebAssembly, and Microsoft’s vision of the world in Blazor. Blazor is single page application framework that sits atop of WebAssembly, but it’s still considered an experiment. I had the chance to interview Steve Sanderson about WebAssembly and Blazor – I shared . Now, I’d like to explore Blazor with you a bit more.