I find it very hard to believe Blazor demand has overtaken JS. That’s an insane comment from Adam
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 at 12:05, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > Is anyone here actively using Blazor on a decent sized project? I used it >> for a while on my last contract but am unable to find new work anywhere >> that uses Blazor, not a single one! > > > Compared to server-side ASP.NET and JS Frameworks, Blazor is a gift from > heaven .. well ... sort-of. Here's a Friday story. > > With the death of Silverlight, we had to replace an app with a quite rich > UI with something else, what?! Like many people, I was spitting chips angry > at the suggestion we must replace our Silverlight apps with HTML5 apps. The > idea that HTML+CSS+JS could replace a WPF-like rich web UI made me laugh > and cry at the same time. > > Angular was really popular around 2018 so we got an offer to write a JS > replacement for $200/hr. I then decided to learn Angular and watched 5 > hours of a 10 hour Angular course, at which point I gave up and said f**k > that s**t. Now what? > > Luckily, Blazor 0.9 was in preview around this time. I spent a whole > Sunday afternoon experimenting with Blazor. By the end of the day I had > quite a sophisticated hobby app working with only a few hundred lines of > coding, thanks to the familiarity of using VS, C# and Razor markup (with a > bit of JS). The same app in ASP.NET would have taken 5 times as long and > 5 times the code. The same app in Angular would have required unfamiliar > tooling and millions of lines of script. > > To answer your question, I have one quite complex Blazor app being used by > some huge US companies to analyse marketing data (using Telerik and > SpreadJS components to attempt to make charts and grids as fancy as was > possible in Silverlight). I have a couple of smaller apps in live use, and > few little ones for utility use. > > I know the guys at Melbourne App Development > <https://melbourneappdevelopment.com/> are really keen on Blazor and were > using it for some serious apps just as it reached version 1.0. About 18 > months ago, Adam Cogan at SSW said during the preamble to one of their > monthly presentations, that Blazor demand had overtaken JS. > > I hope other people in here have similar stories. > > I must end on a sad note. ASP.NET, Blazor, JS, or whatever, all finish-up > rendering in a web browser. It's tragic that the ancient dumb web browser > is now the only host for web apps, and that we must attempt to present > serious business applications using HTML, CSS and JS. The web browser was > invented so we could have flame wars and look at pictures of cats and porn, > it's barely evolved since then and it's completely inadequate for rendering > business applications. Sure it can, but look at the flaming hoops and all > the weird quirks you have to jump through. Web development is in a > lamentable state. > > *Greg Keogh* > -- > ozdotnet mailing list > To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/
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