Blazor is Microsoft’s latest Single Page Application (SPA) framework, which is C# based and renders to the browser HTML DOM. Blazor comes in two flavors: server-side and client-side rendering. This article focuses on client-side rendering and explains how to use RestClient.Net to make calls to a RESTful API. Blazor WebAssembly uses C# compiled for WebAssembly (Wasm).

Blazor lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor apps are composed of reusable web UI components implemented using C#, HTML, and CSS. Both client and server code is written in C#, allowing you to share code and libraries.

If you haven’t heard of Blazor yet, now would be a good time to start doing some research. Front-end development has been primarily dominated by JavaScript and related technologies like TypeScript for a long time. C# developers often need to switch between JavaScript and C#, even though working in a single language can provide significant benefits for software development. Blazor offers an opportunity to write browser-based applications that are written purely in C#.

I previously wrote about using RestClient.Net on Uno Platform. Uno is another Wasm based technology that allows developers to build C# apps for browsers. Uno provides developers with a XAML based platform that is familiar to Windows desktop developers. Blazor allows a mixture of HTML and C# in a single page, so it is more similar to ASP.NET Core Razor scripting. It offers a pathway to migrate away from MVC apps.

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