What’s the Difference Between Razor and Blazor

Blazor

Blazor enables sharing code across client- and server-side processes, server-side rendering functionality, and more. When building a single-page application, Angular or React are popular JavaScript frameworks to use. 

Blazor is a framework for building interactive client-side web UI with .NET:

·         Create rich interactive UIs using C# instead of JavaScript.

·         Share server-side and client-side app logic written in .NET.

·         Render the UI as HTML and CSS for wide browser support, including mobile browsers.

·         Integrate with modern hosting platforms, such as Docker.

Using .NET for client-side web development offers the following advantages:

·         Write code in C# instead of JavaScript.

·         Leverage the existing .NET ecosystem of .NET libraries.

·         Share app logic across server and client.

·         Benefit from .NET's performance, reliability, and security.

·         Stay productive with Visual Studio on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

·         Build on a common set of languages, frameworks, and tools that are stable, feature-rich, and easy to use.

Razor

 Razor is not a new language. It is easy to learn. The main advantage of Razor is that there is less transition between HTML and code because Razor provides an optimized syntax to generate HTML using a code-focused templating approach

Razor Pages can make coding page-focused scenarios easier and more productive than using controllers and views.

The Razor Pages framework is lightweight and very flexible. It provides the developer with full control over rendered HTML. The framework is built on top of ASP.NET Core MVC and is enabled by default when MVC is enabled in a .NET Core application. Razor Pages is the recommended framework for cross-platform server-side HTML generation on .NET Core. You do not need to have any knowledge or understanding of MVC to work with Razor Pages.

Razor is a Template Markup Syntax

 Blazor is an alternative to MVC and Razor Pages but with a twist: It's a single page app framework (SPA) that just happens to use C# instead of JavaScript.

Blazor applications can run on the server, or in the browser thanks to Web Assembly.

But where does Razor fit in to this picture?

It turns out, the components you build for your Blazor applications are officially called Razor Components, and for good reason

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