The software development landscape is often an image of a rushing river more than a stalwart mountain. With the introduction of WebAssembly, many languages are working to implement their own solutions to this binary compilation target. For Microsoft, the solution is Blazor. Blazor is a web framework designed to run client-side in the browser in a WebAssembly-based .NET runtime (Blazor WebAssembly) or Server-side on an ASP.NET Core application server (Blazor Server). WebAssembly is a low-level language with a compact binary… [continue]
Exploring Progressive Web Applications
Over the past few years, the web applications I’ve worked on have increasingly taken a mobile-first design approach. This is great from a presentation standpoint, providing the users with a practical interface for their device, but does not really help deal with flaky mobile networks. Progressive Web Applications provide a way to optimize for connectivity issues. What is a Progressive Web Application? At their core, Progressive Web Applications are simply web applications. They’re a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They… [continue]