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People don't realize this. Blazor is about the developer. I am a `DevOps/Backend` guy and in my previous job some internal tools were made with Blazor.

It was such a joy to work with. Productivity was so high. You add Blazor Radzen components[1] or Syncfusion[2] and suddenly feels like magic. Super complex grid tables can filter, re-order columns, aggregate them and much more functionality for free in 10 lines or fewer.

I cannot recommend enough to people to give it a try. This technology enabled me to do a repair shop software in 1-2 month on my spare time. From customers to emitting bills in PDF. Zero JS and just using the basics grids from bootstrap CSS to make it responsive. As a non frontend developer, this was heaven.

[1] https://blazor.radzen.com/ [2] https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components

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> Blazor is about the developer

Clearly. And that's exactly where the most salient criticism of it comes from: prioritizing the pleasure of the programmer during the development process over everything else, including the experience of the person who actually has to put up with using the thing—all while providing cover for the vendor who bid on the job to argue that they've fulfilled all the requirements so what are you upset about if it's a little janky? Classic enterprise crapware mindset.

Same role, this is exactly why have I kept myself focused on .NET and Java frameworks for Web development, or CMS in those platforms, and mostly leave SPA stuff for the FE team.

Native desktop development is another matter, though.

It's funny you're being downvoted, I've used Blazor on less important side projects and I love it for the same reasons, but a subset of HN hates it because their uBlock Origin no-Js anti-tracker cookieless oddball browsers choke on it.

Interestingly enough Google's crawlers don't even choke on it: my fully SignalR based site was indexed soon after getting a spike in traffic without an issue.

Does it annoy me that leaving the tab and coming back can kill the app? Sure. But often times I reach for it when I otherwise wouldn't have built a thing at all.

Most normal people will take an app with hair edges they can use over nothing so I'm going to keep reaching for it from time to time

No, people hate it because it's a massive downgrade in UX, especially the wasm variant, just because backend devs don't want to use the right tools for the job. I'm fine with it in internal apps, but public facing apps using blazor would be horrible for the users, which is why it is thankfully very rare to see.

Javascript seems downright lightweight and unbloated compared to shipping an entire dot net runtime for a crud form app. For what it's worth, I don't care about turning off javaScript or even bloat in general, but this is extreme.

That's not how the right tool for the job works: the tool that results in the smallest bundle size and the most impressive web metrics is absolutely worthless if 99% of the value in what you're making is it existing and the creator of said tool doesn't feel like building out a SPA.

Of the tens of thousands of people who found my tool useful, the only people who ever complained where Hacker News users, and the tool simply would not exist if I had gone and wasted my time spinning up Next, realizing the app router is garbage, RSC has no place in most React apps, then going back to pages router, then rediscovering how awful NextAuth is, then...

Which is exactly how some of my otherwise interesting side projects die too.

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