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Clayton Terry

I am a developer who loves to find new ways to do old ideas. I pride myself on innovative solutions and not being tied to a specific technology stack.

C# On The Client Side With Blazor

Clayton Terry .NET, CSS & HTML, Development Technologies Leave a Comment

With the introduction of .Net Core 3.0, Microsoft has built its own web UI framework.

Introducing Blazor: Microsoft’s fully C# client-side framework. With the help of its Razor platform, Microsoft is attempting to put its hat in the ring with the likes of Angular, React, and Vue.

Blazor allows developers to fully design and execute web pages purely with C# — it is meant to eliminate the need for JavaScript. The goal is also to hopefully limit the number of vulnerabilities found in front-end UI work.

In this post, we give an introduction to Blazor and a quick tutorial for getting started.

Converting Enterprise Applications to TypeScript

Clayton Terry Development Technologies, JavaScript, Single-Page Application, TypeScript Leave a Comment

We have all been there: some new technology comes out and we know it would improve our maintainability. But we can’t use it. We already picked a technology, it is already implemented, and we can’t change it now. We are stuck.

TypeScript does not work like that. TypeScript is JavaScript, and JavaScript is TypeScript. What this means is any existing files you have are compatible with any new file you add.

So why waste time changing if it’s all the same anyway? TypeScript has some great advantages that JavaScript does not. In this blog I will introduce some of those advantages, as well as some troubleshooting tips for if you run into issues when you choose to convert to TypeScript…