I'm following along with the 'ASP.NET 101' video series from Microsoft.
This is my first ever project with C#, and I'm hoping ASP.NET, Blazor, and Razor are analogous enough to the Javascript and MERN stack development I've learned so far to allow me to pick up on it quickly.
- I'm coming from Javascript, and I haven't worked with C/C++/Java since university, so coming back to a typed language is interesting. The verbosity can be annoying sometimes, but I do enjoy the extra checking - both from the language, and from myself reading over code and explicitly seeing the types.
- There is a lot of 'magic' happening. I need to keep in mind that this is an entire prescriptive framework and not just libraries and methods.
- Annotations feel weird to me. This is not a bad or good thing; just a thing. React and its jsx sugar that mimics HTML felt really elegant. Although, I am learning to enjoy the explicitness of the annotations.
- I may need to learn how to develop an ASP.NET project without using Visual Studio to gain more insight on what's happening.
- The video series is becoming outdated:
- My VS 2022 v.s. their VS 2019
- The ASP.NET project template/structure is slightly different - most important difference is app startup now just in Program.cs, and there is no Startup.cs
- Getting the hang of it: .razor pages/files seem analogous to .jsx - just means I need to be prepared to see a mix of HTML and C#
- A couple more signs that the video series is becoming outdated:
- I couldn't get the modal functionality working properly. The video comments show other people having the same problem. I ended up following Bootstrap's quick start guide to get things working.
- I also used the latest FontAwesome and served the assets locally