A collection of 110 posts
In a previous post, ]I wrote about using RazorComponentResult to render Blazor components](/how-to-use-blazor-server-rendered-components-with-htmx) from ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs. The ability allows developers to reuse Blazor components in new and exciting scenarios, specifically with JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries such as...
Yes, I’m guilty! I’m guilty of ignoring the web platform and all the extraordinary riches waiting for discovery. For all the lip service the .NET community loves to give towards being performance-minded, it’s a shame we stop at the response...
Web Components are gaining momentum in the web platform space, and frankly, it’s bittersweet for us ASP.NET Core developers. On the one hand, you can use Web Components in your current ASP.NET Core applications, as I demonstrated in a previous...
Lately, I’ve been helping a few developers solve some of their issues around Blazor adoption. While I have mixed feelings about the technology, my urge to help developers overcome their challenges outweighs my trepidation with the technology itself.
In my last post, Shoelace Web Components with ASP.NET Core, I showed ASP.NET Core developers how to integrate the web components of Shoelace into an existing web application. It’s incredible, and you should check it out. If you’ve read this...
Web Components are a powerful way to add UX to your web applications while using the web platform. That makes them ideal as they can be used in various ecosystems with little or no changes. They also require no build...
A few new tricks have shipped with the .NET 8 release, and I’d like to take this time to experiment with them. Specifically, I wanted to see if folks investing in a Blazor component library could still use the excellent...
With the release of .NET 8, one killer feature will immediately increase the responsiveness of your APIs and Blazor applications: the ability to stream responses. Yes, you could stream responses before, but it’s never been easier with support for IAsyncEnumerable...
I recently hosted JetBrains JavaScript Day with guest speaker Fred K. Schott of Astro fame, who spoke about the View Transitions API being introduced in modern browsers. You should watch the video, which will give you a primer for this...
Templating is a common approach to separating logic from presentation, and many options exist within the .NET ecosystem. The most popular is the Razor engine used by ASP.NET Core, but it currently has some dependencies that make it difficult to...
