✅ Blazor as desktop
This might be a weird question, but I'm curious:
Is there a way to make a cross-platform blazor desktop app?
It would be like avalonia or maui, but the UI would be made in blazor.
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Blazor = .NET
.NET = cross-platform
Also, Blazor MAUI is a thing as of .NET 7
Yeah, but then I'd need a web browser to display my app and I'd need a server to host my app
Blazor Hybrid is an option that uses webview to render files
If you need a web browser, you don't need a desktop app
if you want a "desktop app" Blazor Hybrid which has existed for a while is an option, otherwise just put those some blazor files onto a Blazor Wasm or Blazor Server website.
Unless you're confused about Blazor, hence the web browser. Blazor MAUI is a variant of Blazor that supports desktop apps, existing as of .NET 7
it's existed before .NET 7 and it's not a variant; it's just wrapped in a webview
I'm getting confused 😅
What I mean is a UI framework like avalonia, but instead it would use blazor for designing instead of xaml.
I have seen Blazor Hybrid before, but I don't know what kind of limitations a WebView component would give.
I'll look into Blazor MAUI, but I don't know how well it's linux support is...
it's not called Blazor MAUI, it's called Blazor Hybrid
they're the same thing
it's just a shell app that uses a web view to render razor
> I have seen Blazor Hybrid before, but I don't know what kind of limitations a WebView component would give.
the same limitations any blazor web app would have, except you can shell out to native commands on the host OS
> I'll look into Blazor MAUI, but I don't know how well it's linux support is...
there is no linux support
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