I-Blazor vs. I-React: Yini u-.NET Architect lokugqibela ukhethe i-Side

I-Blazor vs. React iyiphi imibuzo ye-.NET developer ekugcineni inikeza. I-Blazor inikezela ukwakha i-interactive web UIs nge-C# kunokuba yi-JavaScript. Uma ungumthengisi we-.NET, lokhu kubalulekile isilimi eyodwa, isistimu eyodwa, nokuningi izixazululo ezihlabathi mayelana ne-state management library yokusebenzisa kule kwinqanaba. I-Blazor inikezela ukwakha i-interactive web UIs nge-C# kunokuba yi-JavaScript. Uma ungumthengisi we- .NET, lokhu inikeza isilimi eyodwa, isistimu eyodwa, nokuningi izixazululo ezingenalutho mayelana ne-state management library yokusebenzisa kule kwenyanga. Blazor vs React Umbala weContents Yini i-Blazor kunjalo? I-Case Against React Ukuqhathanisa Ikhodi: React vs Blazor Yintoni i-Blazor isebenza kwami I-Blazor's Evolution: .NET 8, 9, kanye ne-10 Uma Ukuphendula Kufuneka Yenza Inani Ukuqala ngeBlazor I-FAQ: Izinzuzo ezivamile zihlanganiswa Imibuzo yokuqala Ngibhalisa i-JavaScript kusukela ngo-2009, lapho i-jQuery 1.3 yaziwa njenge-mass. Ngithanda i-frameworks ukwandisa kanye nokwandisa njenge-imperi. I-Backbone, i-Angular, i-React, futhi manje ndingathanda ku-Signals? Ngithole kakhulu Izingane ezingenalutho ezingenalutho ezingenalutho. node_modules Ngeya emzimbeni yami yesithathu ifolda engaphezulu kwe-800MB, ngifunda ukuthi: node_modules what if there was another way? Spoiler: there is. It's called Blazor, and it let me build web applications using a language that doesn't think Ukusebenza okufakiwe. "2" + 2 = "22" Yini i-Blazor kunjalo? I-Blazor iyinkqubo ye-Microsoft yokwakha i-interactive web UIs usebenzisa i-C# kunokuba yi-JavaScript. I-imeyili kuyinto i-portmanteau ye-"Browser" ne-"Razor" (i-.NET templating syntax), futhi iyatholakala ukukhiqizwa kusukela ngo-2020. Ngaphandle kokufaka i-JavaScript eyenziwa ku-browser, uzothola i-C# okuyinto: Ukusebenza ku-server (Blazor Server): I-C# yakho isebenza ku-server, futhi izibuyekezo ze-UI zithunyelwa ku-browser ngokusebenzisa ukuxhuma kwe-SignalR WebSocket embalwa. Ukusebenza ku-browser (Blazor WebAssembly): Isikhathi sokusebenza se- .NET esebenza ku-browser nge-WebAssembly. Yes, ikhodi se- .NET esebenzayo, ku-browser yakho. Zonke (i-Blazor United/.NET 8+): Khetha indlela yakho yokudlala ngamunye. I-server-side yokudlulisa ngesivinini yokuqala, i-WebAssembly yokudlulisa okungagunyaziwe. I-Best of both worlds. // A Blazor component. Yes, that's C# in your UI. @page "/counter"

Counter Current count: @currentCount

Click me

@code { private int currentCount = 0;

private void IncrementCount() { currentCount++; } } Akukho webpack. Akukho babel. Akukho amafayela ze-configuration. Just C# okuvula futhi isebenza. I-Case Against React (Ou: I-Why I Needed A Change) I-React iye yasungulwa indlela yokufunda i-component-based UIs. I-DOM ye-Virtual kuyinto enhle kakhulu. Ngingathanda lapha ukuchithwa. But after years of building production React applications, I started noticing patterns that made me question my life choices. I-Framework Churn kuyinto real I-React ecosystem yaziwa njenge Kuyinto engxenyeni yami, kodwa ngihambisa lapho ngifunde. "A ever-shifting maze of faddish churn" Ngonyaka ngamunye inikeza "umgangatho olungcono" ukwenza izinto: Year What We Were Told to Use 2016 Redux. Obviously. 2018 MobX because Redux boilerplate was killing us 2020 Context API (who needs libraries?) 2021 Zustand, after Context caused re-render hell on a dashboard I built 2022 Pick one: Jotai, Recoil, Valtio, or whatever your coworker found on Hacker News 2023 Whatever survived the layoffs 2024 Server Components. State lives on the server now, apparently? 2016 Ukunciphisa. Ngokuqondene 2018 I-MobX ngoba i-Redux boilerplate yenza us 2020 I-Context API (ngaba ufuna izibuyekezo?) 2021 I-Zustand, emva kwe-Context yenza i-re-render hell ku-dashboard iye yakhelwe 2022 Pick one: Jotai, Recoil, Valtio, or whatever your coworker found on Hacker News 2023 Ngiyaxolisa i-Laws 2024 Server Components. State lives on the server now, apparently? One developer on DEV Community : "Ngemuva kweminyaka eminyakeni eyenza kusuka ku-React kuya ku-Vue kuya ku-Svelte ku-Solid (ngemuva kwalokho), ngifunde ukuthi ngithole ngokushesha indlela yokwakha into efanayo ngezindlela eziningana. " Ngena ngemvume Perfectly I-Decision Fatigue kuyinto enzima Ukushaja inkqubo entsha ye-React ngo-2024 kubalulekile ukuba ngithole izinsuku ezimbini kuphela ukhethe izixhobo. I-Bundler? I-Webpack iyona "ukudluliselwa" manje, i-Vite iyona i-default, kodwa kufanele i-Turbopack? Ukulawulwa kwelizwe? Ngitholela nge-Zustand ngemuva kwezinsuku ezingu-3 yokufunda ama-comparison posts. I-Styling? I-Tailwind, kodwa i-half of my team waya i-Styled Components. I-Forms? I-React Hook Form, ngokuvamile, ngaphandle kokufuna okungenani le-Formik iyona kahle. That was before I'd written a single line of business logic. Waze Ukubonisa ukuthi "Ukuhlukaniswa kanye nokuhlukaniswa kwezinketho ze-ecosystem zihlanganisa izinzuzo kanye nezinzuzo ... Oku kuholela ukunemba kwemibuzo, izinguquko ku-codebases ye-projekt, futhi izinguquko okuqhubekayo kwezindlela ezisetshenziselwa ngokuvamile." State of React 2025 I-Type Safety Theatre Yeah, TypeScript ikhona. Yeah, kunceda. Kodwa TypeScript kuyinto umbhobho on a dynamically-typed umdla. Ubhobolisa uhlelo umbhobho ku-language okuyinto ngokuvamile ayikho. Izikhwama zibonisa. // TypeScript: Types are suggestions, really const user: User = JSON.parse(response); // No runtime validation! // user could be anything. TypeScript just trusts you.

// Meanwhile, in C#: var user = JsonSerializer.Deserialize (response); // Actual deserialization with type checking Ukusuka ku-customer project ngoLwesihlanu. 847 ama-instances. Kule isikhathi, unayo kuphela ukulanda i-JavaScript ngamafutha ezengeziwe. grep -r ': any' src/ | wc -l I-NPM Security Nightmare Thola ucwaningo lwezinto okuyinto ibhizinisi we-JavaScript akugqithisa: Folders kuyinto umphathi wokhuseleko. node_modules September 2025: The Shai-Hulud Attack I-compromised 18+ ama-packages nge-over . The attack started with a phishing email to a single maintainer. Within days, packages from Zapier, PostHog, and Postman were trojanized. One of the largest npm supply chain attacks in umlando 2.6 billion weekly downloads Yini Kicker? Kuhlolwe ngo-Novemba 2025, okuqukethe ezingaphezu kuka-25,000 ama-GitHub repositories. Le nguqulo iqukethe i-falback ye-“scorched earth” – uma i-malware ayikwazi ukufinyelela ama-credentials, kufanele . Shai-Hulud 2.0 destroy the victim's entire home directory This isn't ancient history. This is . Unyaka The Greatest Hits of npm Disasters Incident Year Impact left-pad 2016 One developer unpublished an 11-line package. Babel, React, and thousands of projects broke instantly. event-stream 2018 Malicious code injected by a "helpful" new maintainer. Went undetected for 2.5 months. Targeted Bitcoin wallets. ua-parser-js 2021 8 million weekly downloads. Compromised to install cryptominers and password stealers. everything 2024 A "joke" package that depended on every npm package. DOS'd anyone who installed it. Shai-Hulud 2025 2.6B+ weekly downloads affected. AI-assisted attacks. Data destruction payloads. Ukuhlobisa 2016 Umphakeli omnye wahlala iphakheji we-11-line. I-Babel, i-React, neemigodi yeziprojekthi zihlukile ngokushesha. event-stream 2018 Ikhowudi okucubungula eyenziwe nge-"helpful" entsha uphendule. Wentela ongaphakeme iminyaka engu-2.5 izinyanga. I-Bitcoin wallets eyenziwe. ikhaya 2021 8 million ukulayishwa ngeviki. I-compromised ukufaka i-cryptominers ne-password stealers. Wonke 2024 A "joke" package that depended on every npm package. DOS'd anyone who installed it. Shai-Hulud 2025 2.6B+ ukulayishwa ngeviki ezivela. I-AI-assisted attacks. I-Data destruction payloads. Why This Keeps Happening I-ecosystem ye-npm ine-structural problems: : A typical React app has hundreds of transitive dependencies. Each one is an attack surface. Massive dependency trees : Critical infrastructure maintained by unpaid individuals who can be phished, burned out, or social-engineered. Volunteer maintainers : npm installs whatever says. There's no compile-time check that the code is safe. No build-time verification package.json I-Package ye-Trivial: I-Ecosystem ye-JavaScript iyahambisana ne-Package yokusebenza kwe-Trivial. is-odd? is-even? is-number? Lezi zihlanganisa, futhi zihlanganisa ama-millions. # A real npm audit from a "simple" React project found 47 vulnerabilities (12 moderate, 28 high, 7 critical) Meanwhile, in .NET Land NuGet isn't perfect, but it's dramatically better: : Publishers can cryptographically sign packages Signed packages I-Curated Ecosystem: Izipakethe ezincinane ngokuvamile, kodwa izinga okusezingeni eliphezulu : Core libraries maintained by a trillion-dollar company, not a solo developer Microsoft backing Ukuvikelwa kwe-compilation-time: I-C# compiler ikhipha imiphumela emininzi ngaphambi kwe-runtime I-dependence charts ezincinane: I-.NET ibhayisikili ephelele ye-standard inikeza ukunciphisa i-dependence e-external When I run on amaphrojekthi yami yeBlazor, ngithanda imiphumela ye-zero ngokuvamile. Uma ngihambe On React amaphrojekthi, ngithole amahora yami. dotnet list package --vulnerable npm audit Let the Code Speak For Itself: Ukuphendula vs. Blazor Theory kuyinto enhle. Ikhodi kuyinto engcono. Ngiyazi ukuthi umsebenzi efanayo kuhlobene kumadivayisi amabili. A Simple Counter (I-Hello World ye-Frameworks) React (with hooks): import { useState } from 'react';

export default function Counter() { const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

return ( Counter Current count: {count}

setCount(count + 1)}> Click me ); } Blazor: @page "/counter"

Counter Current count: @count

count++">Click me

@code { private int count = 0; } Similar line count, kodwa ukubuyekeza: akukho imports, akukho Hook, no setter function. Just a variable futhi incentive. useState Two-Way Data Binding Kuyinto lapho umbala we-ceremony iyatholakala. React: import { useState } from 'react';

export default function SearchBox() { const [query, setQuery] = useState(''); const [results, setResults] = useState([]);

const handleChange = (e) => { setQuery(e.target.value); };

return ( You typed: {query}

); } Blazor: You typed: @query

@code { private string query = ""; } handles both directions. No handler, no , no setter function. I-binding kuphela isebenza. @bind onChange e.target.value Form Handling with Validation Ngiyazi lapho izinto ziya kubaluleke. Isicelo sokubhalisa umsebenzisi nge-validation. React (with React Hook Form + Zod - the "modern" approach): import { useForm } from 'react-hook-form'; import { zodResolver } from '@hookform/resolvers/zod'; import { z } from 'zod';

const schema = z.object({ email: z.string().email('Invalid email'), password: z.string().min(8, 'Password must be at least 8 characters'), confirmPassword: z.string() }).refine(data => data.password === data.confirmPassword, { message: "Passwords don't match", path: ['confirmPassword'] });

export default function RegisterForm() { const { register, handleSubmit, formState: { errors, isSubmitting } } = useForm({ resolver: zodResolver(schema) });

const onSubmit = async (data) => { await fetch('/api/register', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify(data) }); };

return ( {errors.email && {errors.email.message} } {errors.password && {errors.password.message} } {errors.confirmPassword && {errors.confirmPassword.message} } Register ); } That's three npm packages ( , Ngena ngemva ), spread operators on inputs, and resolver configuration. It works, but there's a lot happening. react-hook-form @hookform/resolvers zod Blazor (with built-in DataAnnotations): @page "/register" @inject HttpClient Http

model.Email" /> model.Password" /> model.ConfirmPassword" />

Register

@code { private RegisterModel model = new(); private bool isSubmitting = false;

private async Task HandleSubmit() { isSubmitting = true; await Http.PostAsJsonAsync("/api/register", model); isSubmitting = false; }

public class RegisterModel { [Required, EmailAddress] public string Email { get; set; } = "";

[Required, MinLength(8, ErrorMessage = "Password must be at least 8 characters")] public string Password { get; set; } = "";

[Required, Compare(nameof(Password), ErrorMessage = "Passwords don't match")] public string ConfirmPassword { get; set; } = ""; } } Zero additional packages. The validation attributes are built into .NET. handles the submit flow. Ukubhalisa ukuvalwa okuzenzakalelayo. Isilinganiso se-model ingasetshenziselwa futhi ku-API yakho. EditForm DataAnnotationsValidator Data Fetching React (with useEffect - the footgun everyone steps on): import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';

export default function UserList() { const [users, setUsers] = useState([]); const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true); const [error, setError] = useState(null);

useEffect(() => { let isMounted = true; // Cleanup flag to prevent state updates after unmount

fetchUsers();

return () => { isMounted = false; }; // Cleanup }, []);

if (loading) return Loading... ; if (error) return Error: {error} ;

return ( {users.map(user => ( {user.name} ))} ); } Qaphela isampula yokuhlanza nge . I spent two hours last year hunting down a memory leak because a junior dev forgot this pattern. The error message? "Can't perform a React state update on an unmounted component." Helpful. isMounted Blazor: @page "/users" @inject HttpClient Http

@if (users == null) { Loading... } else if (error != null) { Error: @error } else { @foreach (var user in users) { @user.Name } }

@code { private List ? users; private string? error;

protected override async Task OnInitializedAsync() { try { users = await Http.GetFromJsonAsync >("/api/users"); } catch (Exception ex) { error = ex.Message; } } } Ngaphandle kokucindezeleka. I-Blazor isebenza ngokufanelekileyo nesikhathi se-component life cycle. No dependency array to forget. kusebenza uma isakhiwo isihlalo. OnInitializedAsync I-Component Communication (I-Parent to Child, I-Child to Parent) React: // Parent function Parent() { const [selectedItem, setSelectedItem] = useState(null);

return ( {selectedItem && } ); }

// Child function ItemList({ onItemSelected, highlightedId }) { const items = [...];

return ( {items.map(item => ( onItemSelected(item)} > {item.name} ))} ); } Blazor: @* Parent *@

@if (selectedItem != null) { }

@code { private Item? selectedItem; } @* ItemList.razor *@ @foreach (var item in items) { SelectedItem = item"> @item.Name }

@code { private List items = [...];

[Parameter] public Item? SelectedItem { get; set; }

[Parameter] public EventCallback SelectedItemChanged { get; set; } } The syntax automatically wires up two-way binding between parent and child. Convention over configuration. @bind-SelectedItem The Ceremony Comparison Task React Blazor Two-way binding + (every. single. field.) value onChange @bind Form validation Pick a library, write a schema, pray Built-in DataAnnotationsValidator Data fetching + cleanup + deps array (good luck) useEffect OnInitializedAsync State management This week's favorite: Redux? Zustand? Jotai? Class fields. Call when needed StateHasChanged() DI Roll your own with Context or install a library (it just works) @inject Parent-child binding Props down, callbacks up @bind-PropertyName Two-way binding + (every. single. field.) value onChange @bind Form validation Pick a library, write a schema, pray Izakhiwo DataAnnotationsValidator Ukuhlobisa Data + cleanup + i-deps array (ukudluliselwa okungenani) useEffect OnInitializedAsync State management This week's favorite: Redux? Zustand? Jotai? Class fields. Call Ukulinganiswa StateHasChanged() Ngena ngemvume Roll yakho nge Context noma ufake library (it just works) @inject Izingane Izingane Izingane Props down, callbacks up @bind-PropertyName See the pattern? Blazor does the same thing with less code and fewer choices to agonize over. Why Blazor Actually Works for Me Umculo Olandelayo Ukulawula Wonke This is the killer feature. With Blazor, I write C# on the frontend and C# on the backend. Same language. Same type system. Same patterns. // Shared model used by both frontend and backend public record CreateOrderRequest( string CustomerId, List Items, ShippingAddress Address );

// API endpoint [HttpPost] public async Task > CreateOrder(CreateOrderRequest request) { // Validate, process, return }

// Blazor component calling the API var order = await Http.PostAsJsonAsync ("api/orders", request); No serialization mismatches. No "I updated the API but forgot to update the TypeScript types." The compiler catches everything. Type Safety That Actually Means Something C# is statically typed. Not "we added types later and hope you use them" typed. The compiler is your friend, and it will tell you about problems your users find them. before // This won't compile. Period. int count = "five"; // Error CS0029

// Pattern matching catches nulls at compile time if (user is { Email: var email }) { SendWelcomeEmail(email); // email is guaranteed non-null here } Ukulungiswa , "combining these tools with the type safety of the language allows developers to write code with a lot more confidence up-front, not having to worry about runtime errors like unexpected nulls." Emergent Software notes SOLID Principles Are First-Class Citizens .NET was designed with dependency injection and interface-based programming in mind. Implementing SOLID principles isn't fighting the framework-it's using it as intended. // Program.cs - Clean DI registration builder.Services.AddScoped (); builder.Services.AddScoped (); builder.Services.AddScoped ();

// Component receives dependencies automatically @inject OrderService Orders @inject NavigationManager Navigation

@code { private async Task SubmitOrder() { var result = await Orders.CreateAsync(currentOrder); if (result.IsSuccess) { Navigation.NavigateTo($"/orders/{result.Value.Id}"); } } } Qiniseka ukufinyelela le ngamanani le-dependence clean injection ku-React ngaphandle kwe-third-party library kanye ne-configuration ceremony. Debugging That Doesn't Make You Cry I-Debugger ye-Visual Studio nge-Blazor kuyinto enhle kakhulu. I-Breakpoints isebenza. I-Step-through isebenza. I-Watch Expressions isebenza. I-Call Stack ikakhulukazi inesifiso. I can set a breakpoint in my Blazor component, step through my business logic, and trace execution all the way to the database and back. Same debugger, same tools, same experience as any other C# application. private async Task LoadOrders() { // Set a breakpoint here var orders = await OrderService.GetRecentAsync(customerId);

// Inspect 'orders' in the debugger // See the actual types, not 'object Object'

this.orders = orders; } Compare this to debugging React where you're juggling browser DevTools, React DevTools, and Redux DevTools all at once. Last year I spent 45 minutes on a bug that turned out to be a missing dependency in a Umbala. Umbala we-re-renderers emangalisayo emangalisayo emangalisayo. I-Blazor's debugger ingathola lokhu eminyakeni eminyakeni. useEffect The .NET Ecosystem is Stable (Boringly So) I-ecosystem ye- .NET isebenza ngokushesha. Ngitholile. Ngitholile lokhu njenge-function, akuyona njenge-bug. I-NuGet iphakethe ihamba ukweseka ukweseka isikhathi eside. Uma i-Newtonsoft.Json wahlala ukufinyelela ku-version 13, engekho umngane. Kuyinto asebenza. Qaphela ukuthi ku-npm ecosystem lapho "i-latest" iyindlela yokusebenza. Ngemva ngethula kusuka ku-.NET 7.0.14 kuya ku-.NET 8.0.0 ngoNovemba ngo-Novemba, ngifumana umhlahlandlela we-breaking changes. I-react wahlala isivakashi yokuthintela isicelo se-medium-size. Uma i-React wahlala kusuka ku-class components kuya ku-hacks, i-community wahlala imizuzu yokubhalisa izifundo kanye nokuhweba ku-Twitter. Real-World Advantages Code Sharing is Trivial Got validation logic? Write it once in a shared library. // Shared.Validation/OrderValidator.cs public class OrderValidator : AbstractValidator { public OrderValidator() { RuleFor(x => x.Items).NotEmpty(); RuleFor(x => x.Total).GreaterThan(0); RuleFor(x => x.ShippingAddress).NotNull(); } }

// Use in Blazor component // Use in API controller // Use in background service // Same validation, everywhere I-Component Model iyaziwayo If you know Razor syntax from MVC or Razor Pages, Blazor components will feel natural. The learning curve for .NET developers is measured in days, not months. // Component with parameters - looks like any other C# class @code { [Parameter] public Order Order { get; set; } = default!;

[Parameter] public EventCallback OnOrderUpdated { get; set; }

[CascadingParameter] public UserContext? User { get; set; } } Ukusebenza kuncike ngokushesha Early Blazor WebAssembly had legitimate performance concerns. Those days are largely behind us-each .NET release has brought major improvements. .NET 8 introduced: Jiterpreter: Ukubuyekezwa kwe-JIT esisodwa ku-browser, ukuguqulwa kwe-bytecodes ye-interpreter slow nge-Optimized WebAssembly SIMD ngokuvamile: WebAssembly Single Instruction, Multiple Data for Vectorized Calculations : Compile C# directly to WebAssembly for near-native performance on CPU-intensive tasks AOT compilation .NET 9 added: : Removes IL after AOT compilation, significantly reducing bundle size WasmStripILAfterAOT Ukukhishwa kwe-lazy loading: Ukukhishwa kwe-assembly ngokushesha kwe-initial loads : Enabled by default for Interactive Server components WebSocket compression .NET 10 delivers: I-Framework Asset Preloading: I-asset ye-static ifakwe ngokushesha nge-Link headers ngaphambi kokuguqulwa kwe-page I-High-Priority Resource Planning: I-Browser i-download kanye ne-cache ye-assets ebalulekile ngokushesha : New diagnostic tools for WebAssembly apps Performance profiling counters Ukuhlukaniswa okuzenzakalelayo kwe-memory pool: Ukuphathwa okuphumelela kwe-memory ku-apps e-long run So: Static SSR outperforms React on initial load because you're serving pre-rendered HTML with zero JavaScript hydration overhead. AOT compilation gets WebAssembly apps to near-native speed. You pick the right mode for each page. Blazor's Rapid Evolution: .NET 8, 9, and 10 One thing that impressed me about Blazor is how aggressively Microsoft has been improving it. This isn't a side project-it's a first-class citizen in the .NET ecosystem. .NET 8: The "Blazor United" Revolution .NET 8 ukuguqulwa ngokuqondile indlela yokusebenza kwe-Blazor nge-introduction . Before .NET 8, you had to choose: Blazor Server Blazor WebAssembly. Now you can mix and match per-component. unified rendering modes or Ukuguqulwa konke. Izinhlelo zayo zibonisa njenge-HTML enhle ku-server. Akukho ukuxhuma kwe-SignalR, akukho ukulanda kwe-WebAssembly. Just fast, i-SEO-friendly HTML. Static Server-Side Rendering (SSR) // A static SSR page - renders as pure HTML @page "/about" @attribute [StreamRendering]

About Us

About Our Company This renders as static HTML. Search engines love it.

Umhlahlandlela we-Blazor Web App umhlahlandlela we-SSR, nge-interactivity njenge-opt-in enhancement. Lokhu kubuyekeza isifilosofi esiyinhloko-ukuvela nge-optional engcono kakhulu, kakhulu ye-SEO-friendly futhi ukongeza ukuxhumana kuphela lapho kufuneka. .NET 9: Mixing Modes with Precision isixazululo se-Double down on flexibility. I-New attribute lets you mark specific pages that Ukusetshenziswa kwe-SSR ye-static-friendly ku-pages that rely on HTTP cookies or the request/response cycle. .NET 9 [ExcludeFromInteractiveRouting] ikhaya @page "/privacy-settings" @attribute [ExcludeFromInteractiveRouting]

// This page always renders statically, even in an otherwise interactive app Other .NET 9 improvements: I-WebSocket I-compression eyakhiwe ngokuvamile ku-Interactive Server components at runtime via the new RendererInfo API Render mode detection for Blazor Server apps Improved reconnection handling .NET 10: Ukusebenza kanye Polish Shipped nge izinzuzo ezinkulu ze-Blazor: .NET 10 : I-Blazor script iyasebenza njenge-web asset ye-static nge-compression okuzenzakalelayo kanye ne-fingerprinting, okunciphisa kakhulu usayizi we-payload kanye nokuphucula i-cache. Blazor script optimization : The new attribute simplifies sharing data between pre-rendering and interactive renders: Persistent component state [PersistentState] @code { [PersistentState] public List ? Movies { get; set; }

protected override async Task OnInitializedAsync() { // State is automatically restored from prerendering Movies ??= await MovieService.GetMoviesAsync(); } } : now works seamlessly across all render modes. New project templates include a default page. Better 404 handling NavigationManager.NotFound() NotFound.razor : Server circuits now expose traces as top-level activities, making observability in Application Insights much cleaner. Improved diagnostics I-Blazor isebenza ngokushesha, ngokushesha, futhi ngokushesha ekukhiqizeni. Uma Ukuphendula Kufuneka Yenza Inani Ngingathanda lapha ukuthi i-React iyimfuneko. Akukho. Khetha i-React uma iqembu lakho ungathanda ku-JavaScript futhi engaba ufuna ukufunda i-C#. Khetha ukuba unemibuzo ye-npm ye-niche eyenza emkhakheni we-Blazor (izinye izixazululo). Khetha i-MVP yokushesha elisha lapho uzothola ikhodi eminyakeni eminyakeni. If you need an obscure charting library or a drag-and-drop grid that does exactly one strange thing, umuntu ngokuvamile ukwakha. That is genuinely valueful. Kodwa uma ungumthengi we-.NET yokwakha izixhobo zangaphakathi, izicelo ze-line-of-business, noma yini okufuneka isebenze iminyaka engaphezu kwama-three? Ukuqala ngeBlazor If you're curious, here's the quickest path to a running Blazor app: # Create a new Blazor Web App (.NET 8+) dotnet new blazor -o MyBlazorApp cd MyBlazorApp dotnet run Kuyinto. Akukho that spins for three minutes downloading half the internet. No ifolda elikhulu kunoma ikhodi yakho yayo. No noma to fight with. npm install node_modules .babelrc webpack.config.js Waze is comprehensive and actually well-written. Microsoft's docs have come a long way since the MSDN days. official Blazor documentation FAQ: Common Concerns About Blazor I've heard every objection in the Blazor vs React debate. Some are valid. Most aren't. Is Blazor WebAssembly bundle size too large? Ngo-2020? Yeah, it was rough. Ukulinganiswa lokuqala angakwazi ukufinyelela 2-3MB. Okunye? .NET 8+ ukuguqulwa Math: AOT compilation shrinks the runtime significantly IL trimming strips unused code I-Lazy Loading I-Defers Non-Critical Assemblies .NET 10 inikeza ukucindezeleka okuzenzakalelayo kanye nokucindezeleka kwe-fingerprint Kodwa ngokwenene, ingcindezi ethandwa kakhulu: Ungathumela WebAssembly bonke. Isebenzisa i-Static SSR for landing pages (zero WASM). Isebenzisa i-Interactive Server for sections authenticated. Save WebAssembly for offline scenarios noma ukucubungula kwe-client-side eningi. Ungathola ngamaphepha ngoku. Are JavaScript developers easier to hire than Blazor developers? Depends what you're actually hiring for. Umdlali we-C# abadala i-Blazor eminyakeni. Umdlali we-component i-click ngokushesha, i-syntax i-Razor kuphela, futhi akuyona isilimi. Ukubala ukuthi ukuhweba "umdlali we-React" owafundile iminyaka eminyakeni amabili futhi manje kufuneka uxhumane i-Server Components, i-React Developer. Hook, futhi kungekho meta-framework ithimba yakho etholakala. use The .NET talent pool is large, stable, and full-stack capable. Your backend developer can review frontend PRs without context-switching languages. Does React have more third-party components than Blazor? Okwe. Ukuhlobisa ngokuphelele But quantity isn't quality. For every polished React component library, there are dozens of abandoned packages with security holes, incompatible peer dependencies, and READMEs that say "TODO: add documentation." I-Ecosystem ye-Blazor iyinhlangano encane kodwa ungathanda nge-npm ngokuvumelana ne-package esithathwe. is the one I reach for first. Material Design, free, and the maintainers actually respond to issues. Waze both offer free community licenses if you need more. Enterprise shops usually go for the support contracts. MudBlazor Radzen Syncfusion Telerik Futhi lapho kufanele ungenza JavaScript library? Ngiyaxolisa ngokushesha: IJSRuntime @inject IJSRuntime JS

@code { private async Task InitializeChart() { await JS.InvokeVoidAsync("Chart.bindings.init", chartElement, chartData); } } You're not locked out of the JavaScript ecosystem. You just don't Yini? Ukulungele Ngaba i-Blazor iyona i-SEO? I-Static SSR inikeza i-HTML enhle. I-Google ibona, i-index, ifakwe. I-Static SSR efanayo ne-Next.js kodwa ku-C#. Lezi zixazululo zihlanganisa ngo-2020 lapho i-Blazor iye i-WebAssembly kuphela. It has not been true for years. Can Blazor be used for mobile apps? Blazor Hybrid exists. Write your components once, run them in MAUI (iOS/Android/Windows/macOS), WPF, or even Windows Forms. Same C# components, native app shell. Not quite "write once, run anywhere" but close enough for most use cases. Is Blazor tooling as good as VS Code with React? Ngingathanda ukuthi iyatholakala, kodwa lokhu kuyimfuneko. I-Visual Studio nge-Blazor: ukucubungula okuqhubekayo nge-breakpoints kanye ne-step-through, i-IntelliSense ebonakalayo ibhodi yakho ephelele, i-refactoring ebonakalayo phakathi kwamakhemikhali kanye namasevisi, i-Hot Reload ebonakalayo kakhulu, ukucubungula nokufakwa. VS Code with React: syntax highlighting, IntelliSense that works if TypeScript is configured right, hoping your is correct, browser extensions that may or may not conflict with each other. launch.json The debugging alone sold me. Setting a breakpoint in a Blazor component and stepping through to the database, in one IDE, one language? That's just pleasant. Does Blazor create Microsoft vendor lock-in? .NET kuyinto open source (i-MIT license). I-Blazor kuyinto open source. Ungasebenza ku-Linux, ku-Docker, ku-AWS, ku-Azure, emhlabeni wonke. Ingabe kukhona ukubaluleka kwe-ecosystem kuya ku-Azure? Ngokuthi. Kodwa ngithumela izicelo ze-Blazor ku-AWS, i-DigitalOcean, kanye namasevisi ze-bar metal ngaphandle kokubili. Compare this to React, which is technically open source but practically controlled by Meta's priorities. When Facebook decided class components were out, the entire ecosystem pivoted. When they pushed Server Components, everyone scrambled. At least Microsoft publishes a roadmap. Ingabe i-Blazor Hot Reload isebenza kahle? It was rough in .NET 5. By .NET 8 it was usability. I-Edit A ifayela, ukugcina, bheka izinguquko. Izinhlelo zokusebenza, I-Razor Markup, i-CSS, konke ngokushesha. .NET 10 ekugcineni kwenziwe kahle .razor Is it as fast as Vite? No. Is it fast enough that I don't think about it? Yes. Final Thoughts Ukuguqulwa ku-Blazor akuyona zonke izimo zayo. Ngithole ama-bugs. Ngithole ama-architectural amaphuzu. Ngithande ngamanye izikhathi ngithole isikhathi eside kakhulu ekubunjweni into esizayo. But I've stopped spending mental energy on which state management library is "correct" this month. I don't wonder whether my TypeScript types match runtime data anymore (spoiler: they often didn't). I'm not updating seventeen npm packages every time Dependabot yells at me. I-One Language. I-One Ecosystem. Ama-patterns eyenziwe ngexesha leminyaka engaphezu kwengu-10. I-.NET isebenza. Kuyinto i-compromise, futhi ngabantu akuyona kunzima. I-mileage yakho ingahlukile. Kodwa uma umenzi we- .NET owawuthanda Nge-existencial dread-Blazor kungabangela usuku esigcwele isikhathi yakho. package.json What's Next? Uma ufuna ukuhlola: . That's the whole setup. dotnet new blazor -o MyFirstBlazorApp && cd MyFirstBlazorApp && dotnet run I-Microsoft zihlanganisa, futhi is one of the friendlier tech subreddits I've found. I-Blazor Tutorials R / I-Blazor Imibuzo? Hlola inkinobho noma thola nami kwi-social. Ngingathanda ukuxhumana ngezinto. Sources: Ikheli : I-State of Reaction ne-Community ngo-2025 Uma akufanele ukuguqulwa, ke? I-Why the Latest JavaScript Frameworks Is A Waste Of Time Ngaba i-Blazor iyona i-JavaScript? Blazor vs React: A Comprehensive Comparison I-Debug ye-ASP.NET Core Blazor Apps I-Blazor ku-.NET 8: Ukusebenza kwe-Server-Side ne-Streaming Izinzuzo ze-Static Server-Side Rendering ku-Blazor What's New in .NET 10 - Microsoft Learn Yini entsha ku-ASP.NET Core ku-.NET 10 - Microsoft Learn I-npm Supply Chain Attack - I-Palo Alto Networks Shai-Hulud 2.0 Supply Chain Attack - Wiz npm left-pad Incident - Wikipedia Ukubuyekezwa kweMalicious Package - Snyk I-The "Everything" Package Chaos - I-Socket About the Author Ngingumfana we-System Architect angathanda izinhlelo eziphilayo, i-.NET clean code, i-logging, ukusebenza, kanye ne-production debugging. I-mass deleted Folders ngaphezulu izikhathi ukuthi ngithanda ukholelwa. node_modules LinkedIn: Qhagamshelana nathi I-GitHub: i-mashrulhaque Twitter / X: @mashrulthunder