Understanding Blazor

Blazor lets you build shared components and interactive web user interfaces using C# instead of JavaScript. In April 2019, Microsoft announced that Blazor "is no longer experimental and we are committing to ship it as a supported web UI framework including support for running client-side in the browser on WebAssembly."

JavaScript and friends

Traditionally, any code that needs to execute in a web browser is written using the JavaScript programming language or a higher-level technology that transpiles (transforms or compiles) into JavaScript. This is because all browsers have supported JavaScript for about two decades, so it has become the lowest common denominator for implementing business logic on the client side.

JavaScript does have some issues, however. First, although it has superficial similarities to C-style languages like C# and Java, it is actually very different once you dig beneath the surface. Second, it is a dynamically typed...