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Published inAug 2023
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Ahmad Mozaffar
Ahmad Mozaffar
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Ahmad Mozaffar

Ahmad Mozaff ar is a senior soft ware engineer, cloud developer, and trainer who currently works at ContraForce as a senior full stack engineer responsible for developing SaaS platforms using Blazor, Azure, AI, and other modern technologies. Originally from Syria, his passion for soft ware development, especially .NET and Azure, started at a very early age. He loves teaching people about developing soft ware using .NET, Azure, and other Microsoft technologies through his YouTube channel, AK Academy, and writing articles on multiple platforms, which have reached more than 400K readers.
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Calling a web API from Blazor WebAssembly

Making calls to the web API from the Blazor app involves the same steps as doing so from Postman. We start by defining the endpoint to call, prepare the data to send with the request if needed, submit the request, and, finally, receive and process the response.

.NET has a built-in class called HttpClient, which is a rich class that provides all the functionality and configuration needed to send any type of request (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and more) to a given web API.

Understanding FetchData component logic

All Blazor WebAssembly projects have a default page called FetchData in the Pages folder. The logic of this page is to make a GET request to download the content of a JSON file that lives in the wwwroot folder, and that content also represents weather forecast data. So, let’s analyze the code of the FetchData component so that we understand it better:

@page "/fetchdata"@inject HttpClient Http
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Published in: Aug 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235103

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Ahmad Mozaffar

Ahmad Mozaff ar is a senior soft ware engineer, cloud developer, and trainer who currently works at ContraForce as a senior full stack engineer responsible for developing SaaS platforms using Blazor, Azure, AI, and other modern technologies. Originally from Syria, his passion for soft ware development, especially .NET and Azure, started at a very early age. He loves teaching people about developing soft ware using .NET, Azure, and other Microsoft technologies through his YouTube channel, AK Academy, and writing articles on multiple platforms, which have reached more than 400K readers.
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