Preface

Single-page applications (SPAs) have become an essential part of modern technology. We have become more dependent on browsers than ever before. With the release of Angular, ReactJS, and other JavaScript frameworks for developing modern web apps, a big revolution occurred. JavaScript was dominant in the field for many years as the only language to be understood and run in browsers. In 2015, WebAssembly arrived as a technology experiment that allowed browsers to run programming languages other than JavaScript, such as C# and C.

With WebAssembly, the doors have opened for more powerful web apps and new frameworks to be used to build things in browsers. Microsoft was the first adopter of WebAssembly by announcing Blazor, a framework that ...

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