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lovesomekunicki
lovesomekunicki

Reputation: 131

Is it possible to route directly to a blazor page hosted in an MVC application?

I have an existing .net core 3.1 MVC application that I've started adding Blazor components to. This is working great, the components render and work as expected. Currently to get to a page that uses Blazor I am adding a controller action and view which handles the routing then I add the component tag to the view to render the Blazor component.

So let's say I have a Customers Blazor component, which is really a customers "page", I do the following.

  1. Add a controller and action, in this example I would add a "Customers" controller with an "Index" action
  2. I add the corresponding Index view
  3. Create a Customers Blazor component in the Pages folder of my app
  4. In the view I use the component tag helper to load the Blazor component: <component type="typeof(MyApp.Pages.Customers)" render-mode="Server" />

Like I said, all of this works just fine it's just a lot of overhead for every page I add that uses Blazor. It would be nice to be able to just use the built-in Blazor routing for pages. If this worked I could just add the Customers Blazor component in the Pages folder and add the @page tag like this: @page "/Customers"

Unfortunately this does not work, I get a 404 if I try to use this method.

I have followed the instructions in this article but still receive a 404: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/components/integrate-components?view=aspnetcore-3.1#use-routable-components-in-an-mvc-app

Has anyone got this working? Is it even possible?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2450

Answers (1)

Ben Sampica
Ben Sampica

Reputation: 3402

Start to finish with a fresh dotnet new mvc application, this is how you can do this in .NET 5.0 ...

  1. Inside of ConfigureServices, add:

    • services.AddRazorPages();
    • services.AddServerSideBlazor();

  2. Inside of Configure underneath UseEndpoints, add:

    • endpoints.MapFallbackToPage("/_Host");
    • endpoints.MapBlazorHub()

  3. Inside of your main layout, add the blazor server js

    • <script src="_framework/blazor.server.js"></script>

  4. Using an _Imports.razor file, reference: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web

    • This is a framework class library so no NuGet package needed
    • Make sure its in scope of your Blazor components!

  5. Add a _Host.cshtml file (pull it from a Blazor app)

    • This should reference the MVC _Layout file and be blank other than the App component
    • The page route should be a unique route (just like a SPA calling to an API would be) 
      // _Host.cshtml
@page "/blazor" 
@namespace BlazorTechTalk.MvcWithBlazorUI.Pages
@addTagHelper *, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers
@{
     Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

<component type="typeof(App)" render-mode="ServerPrerendered" />

  6. Add an App.razor component (from a Blazor app)

  7. Add an MainLayout component (from a Blazor app)

    • This should be blank besides: 
      @inherits LayoutComponentBase
@Body

  8. Phew, you're done, you can now add BlazorPage.razor pages and components inside your MVC project!

@page "/blazorpage"

<h3>BlazorPage</h3>

Just in case anyone stumbles upon this and only needs Blazor components

Do step 1-4 but you can omit:

  • services.AddRazorPages();
  • endpoints.MapToFallbackFile("/Host");

Upvotes: 9

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