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WebAssembly - Blazor Tutorial

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WebAssembly

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- [Instructor] WebAssembly, known for short as Wasm, allows you to write front-end web applications using a wide range of coding languages. This opens up the possibility of writing a front-end application using .NET and C#. WebAssembly is available on modern-day browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari. For an application to work with WebAssembly, it needs to be saved as a WebAssembly text through a wat file. Afterwards, it is converted into binary format that will be run on the browser using a wasm file. However, you don't need to know how to write WebAssembly text or convert it into binary format. With Blazor, the compiler does this for you. Therefore, you can code a Blazor application in C# like you would do for any other .NET application. Before WebAssembly, client-side functionality would be written using JavaScript. For developers building in an interactive web UI with server integration, they had to know a…

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