blazor without web assembly

Question

Disclaimer: I am new in blazor and .NET.

My question: Is it possible to use blazor client/server without webassembly?

My understanding:

• Blazor client uses web assembly and download the whole .NET core, (dependencies+ CLR) in the browser.

• In the blazor server only frontend resources are loaded (HTML+CSS+JS) and the library persistent two-way is loaded to send to the server updates. So in this case NO web assembly is used.

Is it the case?

Answer 1

Yes, that is the case. What is downloaded with a blazor server application is basically a javascript client which keeps a SignalR connection with the server which serves the content and changes in the application.

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