The following is a brief interview with Succinctly author Michael Washington, whose second edition of Blazor WebAssembly Succinctly was recently published. You can download the book from our ebook portal.
This edition turned out to be a huge rewrite. Microsoft has improved so many things with Blazor since the first edition of this book. Things are much easier; there is less code required to do the same thing. However, this required me to rewrite nearly 75% of the code and recreate almost all the screenshots and there are a lot!
This biggest change is MAUI. This is essentially running Blazor on the desktop. Think of Microsoft Windows Forms technology but cross-platform (Android, iOS, macOS, Windows). This is what some people have used Blazor WebAssembly for in the past, but there are certain limitations that MAUI doesn’t have, such as accessing the entire file system on the user’s computer. However, Blazor WebAssembly is great for PWAs (progressive web applications). These are applications that can run offline on a person’s mobile device or web browser.
There are a lot of YouTube videos on Blazor now, but the resource I use the most is still Blazor.net because that takes you to learn.microsoft.com, and they literally update the content there every day.
There is a long editorial process. Because technology changes so fast, you have to consider the future. I find it best to stick with core concepts that you know will have lasting utility for the readers.
The best place to find all my content is BlazorHelpWebsite.com.
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