What is BlazingChat?

BlazingChat is a Blazor WebAssembly app developed by CuriousDrive for the community. This is a sample application for developers who are just getting started with Blazor.

BlazingChat has code samples for Authentication, Logging, Virtualization ... and much more. The app is open source and running in production.

Check it out here https://www.blazingchat.com

How to run it?

• Make sure that you have .NET 5 installed on your machine.
• Clone repo https://github.com/CuriousDrive/BlazingChat.git on your machine.
• Open folder /src/WebAPI in terminal. And run command dotnet run.
• Open folder /src/Client in terminal. And run command dotnet run.
• Go to https://localhost:5001/
• Click on login. You should get logged in with email address john.smith@gmail.com
• Or you can login with your Twitter or Facebook
• Congratulations!!! you are using BlazingChat.

How does it work?

The front-end is made using Blazor WebAssembly and the back-end is made using ASP.NET Core Web API + Entity Framework Core. SQLite is used to store the data. You can run this app on Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems. The repo is maintained episode by episode so that you can go back to particular episode and the code related to it.

How can I build it from scratch?

The best part about BlazingChat app is that it's been documented while it was getting built.

Please check out the videos below, if you want to learn how to build your own Blazor WebAssembly app from scratch.

Topic	Video Recording
Introduction/Full Course/Workshop - EP01	https://youtu.be/v6Mt8HKAWa0
Hello World from Windows/Linux - EP02	https://youtu.be/BajljUky-KA
Project Structure/Template - EP03	https://youtu.be/S-skkhzcMmo
Routing, NavigationManager & AdditionalAssemblies : EP04	https://youtu.be/86vyb4vDGTk
Debugging in VS Code, Chrome and Visual Studio : EP05	https://youtu.be/4c2vli5567A
Entity Framework Core - EP06	https://youtu.be/rACHqnkaORA
MVVM Architecture - EP07	https://youtu.be/dvgReCfPsvg
Dependency Injection in MVVM - EP08	https://youtu.be/bxpSa0ZmwtY
Using HttpClient in MVVM - EP09	https://youtu.be/To-GSKOac10
Open-source Project - EP10	https://youtu.be/6T-l-lt28rs
Custom Authentication - EP11	https://youtu.be/B9jKf-Dn0Yg
AuthenticationState - EP12	https://youtu.be/N8YoJRV19rw
Twitter Authentication/Login - EP13	https://youtu.be/TZSwbey58CM
Facebook Authentication - EP14	https://youtu.be/AoN-CzWJwa4
Google Authentication - EP15	https://youtu.be/4lYPhionIEo
Migrating from 3.1 to .NET 5 - EP16	https://youtu.be/kcihC-h69fE
CSS Isolation - EP17	https://youtu.be/0EqMxSm_49k
Uploading Files - EP18	https://youtu.be/sF6yhn2UJNs
Downloading Files : EP19	https://youtu.be/qUbbtcZZqaI
Virtualize Component - EP20	https://youtu.be/UtmAlX6U29k
JavaScript Isolation - EP21	https://youtu.be/tbNgLNZnNWM
Lazy-loading Assemblies - EP22	https://youtu.be/e_22VhPQJj0
Deploy to IIS(Internet Information System) - EP23	https://youtu.be/vV0zn91OZfc
Creating Chat Application Using SignalR - EP24	https://youtu.be/5VSUX6w5P8g
SignalR - Sending Messages to Specific Clients - EP25	https://youtu.be/SeQvP8_dVng
Cookie Expiration & API Authorization - EP26	https://youtu.be/QOFwpmjEW7g
Logging to Database using Custom Logger Provider - EP27	https://youtu.be/SmFsQJBbsO0
Global Exception Handling using CascadingValue - EP28	https://youtu.be/mxOYvu2MWFo
"Remember me" using Cookie Authentication - EP30	https://youtu.be/220FQbMKyrg
Dark/Light Theme Switch - EP31	https://youtu.be/5qRaUviEYIw
JWT Authorization - EP32	https://youtu.be/bu6F4oeYdzA
JWT For Facebook Authentication - EP33	https://youtu.be/bBvDQ9z1Xdw
Authorization using CascadingAuthenticationState & JWT - EP34	https://youtu.be/uthjcpJHzKo
Deploying the app with WebAPI using GitHub Actions(CI/CD) for FREE - EP35	https://youtu.be/m7DqtL0WIV0

Have any other questions?

If you have any questions on how this project is setup then you can reach out to us on below handles.

https://twitter.com/curious_drive
https://www.facebook.com/curiousdrive/
https://www.youtube.com/c/curiousdrive

Let us know how it goes.