The only places I've ever heard of Blazor being used is <something>. microsoft.com and this mailing list.
We do Angular exclusively and see a lot of it in the wild from other dev at our client sites. On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 12:30, DotNet Dude via ozdotnet < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > 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/ > > -- > ozdotnet mailing list > To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/
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