The Bleeding Edge Of Razor
Over the years there's been a number of projects designed to make using Razor templates from your own code easier. For a while, these third-party libraries were the only way to easily use Razor outside ASP.NET MVC because using the ASP.NET code directly was too complicated. That started to change with ASP.NET Core and the ASP.NET team has slowly started to address this use case. In this post we'll take a look at the current bleeding edge of Razor and how you can use it today to enable template rendering in your own application.
Blazor, Razor, WebAssembly, and Mono
Blazor is an exciting new web framework from the ASP.NET team that uses Razor, WebAssembly, and Mono to enable the use of .NET on the client. There’s been a lot of excitement about the possibilities this presents, but there’s also been just as much confusion about how these various parts fit together. In this post I’ll attempt to clarify things and show you exactly what each of these technologies do and how they work together to enable .NET in your browser.
Announcing Wyam
I am very proud to announce my newest project, Wyam. It's a static site and content generator built from the ground up to be modular and flexible.
Announcing RazorDatabase
On multiple web projects recently I've needed to display content that relies on metadata about other content. One example is displaying a list of recent news releases with summaries on the home page of a site. Another example would be something similar for blog entries. You can extend this idea even further by considering metadata oriented pages like a list of tags for all the blogs on a site, or a list of all news articles that pertain to a specific subject.