The Breakpoint Show@rafaelldi This is just my opinion ( @cwoodruff), but I find that dotnet is a great general framework, but I find it strongest for backend work myself. I think dotnet could have a resurgence on the web front end by having a simpler path for 90% of the needed work for web dev. Maybe @maartenballiauw and @khalidabuhakmeh have their own takes.
Maarten Balliauw@breakpointshow @rafaelldi @cwoodruff @khalidabuhakmeh Maybe we should make this a topic in a future episode?
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Rocky Lhotka 🤘🖖@cwoodruff @maartenballiauw @breakpointshow @rafaelldi @khalidabuhakmeh Personally, I think #blazor is finally an answer to #dotnet having a decent UI framework. The productivity of VB6 with the reach of the web.
Khalid âš¡@rockylhotka @cwoodruff @maartenballiauw @breakpointshow @rafaelldi I have mixed feelings on Blazor. I can see why devs would leap at it, but the user experience can suffer because of web sockets or Wasm payloads.
Blazor United also feels like a step down from what Razor already offers. No Tag Helpers is a big missing feature.
Blazor development seems to have sucked the oxygen out of the rest of the ASP.NET framework ecosystem.
@khalidabuhakmeh @cwoodruff @maartenballiauw @breakpointshow @rafaelldi It will be interesting to see if the web socket issues are largely resolved in #dotnet 8 with the new #signalr features.
Philip Doherty 🖖@rockylhotka @khalidabuhakmeh @cwoodruff @maartenballiauw @breakpointshow @rafaelldi What are the websocket issues? Currently building out a complex product with Blazor as the stack.
@phildoherty @rockylhotka @cwoodruff @maartenballiauw @breakpointshow @rafaelldi web sockets are hard and can have connectivity issues.
.NET 8 is adding more resiliency and reconnect options.
Also, WebSocket sessions need to be managed in-memory on a server, so prepare your production environment accordingly.
@khalidabuhakmeh @rockylhotka @cwoodruff @maartenballiauw @breakpointshow @rafaelldi Thanks, ready for all that. Was wondering if there was more. The productivity in Blazor is off the charts so I've got a lot of time for it, and extra time.