Blazor Community Standup | Blazor integration with Aspire

This Blazor Community Standup covers ongoing work to integrate Blazor with .NET Aspire, aiming to make it easier to run and observe Blazor apps in an Aspire-based distributed app setup.

Full summary based on transcript

Session overview

The presenters walk through work-in-progress Blazor integration with .NET Aspire, focusing on:

• A new Blazor gateway concept
• Deeper platform integration to enable:
  • Configuration flow
  • Service discovery
  • Richer diagnostics
  • Improved scaling

The discussion applies to both Blazor WebAssembly and Blazor Server apps.

Announcement: ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support

The session includes an announcement that ASP.NET Core 2.3 is end of support.

How Blazor and Aspire work together

The presenters explain the intended integration points between Blazor and Aspire, including how Aspire can provide:

• Centralized configuration wiring for Blazor apps
• Service discovery so Blazor apps can find dependent services
• Diagnostics/observability improvements when running under Aspire
• Better scaling characteristics through platform-level integration

Aspire with Blazor standalone

They provide an overview of using Aspire with a standalone Blazor setup and what changes with the new integration work.

Trying the integration

They point viewers to a pull request to try the integration work:

• https://github.com/microsoft/aspire/pull/15691

Demo and Q&A

The session includes a demo of the integration and a Q&A segment, including discussion about expected shipping timelines and what’s still in progress.