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Blazor vs Knack: What are the differences?
Developers describe Blazor as "An experimental web UI framework using C#/Razor and HTML, running in the browser via WebAssembly". Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML. On the other hand, Knack is detailed as "Easily build beautiful data-driven web apps". Build simple web apps like a member directory, job listings, employee time tracking, business directory, contact directory, product catalogue, or equipment tracker.
Blazor and Knack can be categorized as "Web App Builders" tools.
Some of the features offered by Blazor are:
- Uses only the latest web standards
- No plugins or transpilation needed
- A component model for building composable UI
On the other hand, Knack provides the following key features:
- No cookie-cutter software- define the exact data that your app needs.
- Easy data types like name, address, email, and more add structure and formatting to your data.
- Powerful options for formulas, equations, files, and images.
Blazor is an open source tool with 8.18K GitHub stars and 664 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Blazor's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Blazor
- Uses C#63
- No need to learn separate language or technology49
- Supports making a single page application42
- Tight integration with .NET project40
- Uses .NET standard library38
- Very little JavaScript required30
- Components29
- No need to compile, bundle and deploy separately27
- Shared classes between client and server27
- Cross Platform24
- Has Server AND Client hosting models21
- Very easy JavaScript interop if required18
- Third party state management i.e. Blazor-State17
- App state can be managed singleton objects14
- Portable Code across Mobile, Web and Desktop4
- Work with Electron/MAUI2
Pros of Knack
- Web Apps2
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Cons of Blazor
- Initial load time4
- Hard to inject javascript2