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Published inAug 2023
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ISBN-139781803235103
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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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When and why we use JavaScript in Blazor apps

The main selling point of Blazor is that it lets us build modern web applications using C# instead of JavaScript and that’s 100% true, but the presence of capabilities in the browser that have been built around JavaScript for many years makes the use of JavaScript mandatory in some cases.

Blazor already uses JavaScript behind the scenes in its engine, for example, to manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM), access some special features in the browser such as local storage, and even deal with files.

Because of the length of use of JavaScript in web development compared to Blazor, there are thousands of packages and tools that have been built using JavaScript over the years by corporates and open source contributors, including rich text editors, image croppers, and stuff like that. Having the ability to communicate with JavaScript from Blazor gives you the power to leverage those utilities directly out of the box instead of...

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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.
Read more about Ahmad Mozaffar