Blazor

Introduction to ASP.NET Core Blazor gives a thorough technical overview.

WebAssembly vs Server

Two notions worthy of note in Blazor are

• Blazor WebAssembly
• Blazor Server

The former makes the client app effectively a SPA (running in the browser) – this is how traditional JavaScript client apps work.

However the later, Blazor Server, is more interesting, because that makes the “client” app mostly run on the server.

“mostly” - because, when dealing with UI events from DOM as well as when modifying the DOM itself (as well for JavaScript interop), Blazor communicates over the wire (through SignalR) to the frontend browser. Otherwise the rest of the code logic runs on the server.