Web Assembly is changing the way we think about Web development with new ideas and approaches that may not involve JavaScript. Microsoft has put its foot forward with a new Web Assembly based framework called Blazor that combines Razor templates with C# code to provide a rich .NET based front end experience. There's much to think about and understand in this still experimental framework, but the concepts it presents provide a welcome change to the JavaScript status quo. In this post I examine how Web Assembly and Blazor interact, how .NET code is used and give some thoughts on how this technology fits into the Web stack.

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