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Blazor vs Retool: What are the differences?
Blazor: 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; Retool: Build custom internal tools in minutes. Custom internal tools have the same building blocks. Retool gives you those building blocks, so you can build them much faster.
Blazor and Retool can be primarily classified as "Web App Builders" tools.
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.
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Pros of Blazor
- Uses C#32
- No need to learn separate language or technology23
- Supports making a single page application18
- Uses .NET standard library18
- Tight integration with .NET project17
- No need to compile, bundle and deploy separately13
- Very little JavaScript required12
- Shared classes between client and server9
- Components6
- App state can be managed singleton objects6
- Third party state management i.e. Blazor-State6
- Very easy JavaScript interop if required5
- Has Server AND Client hosting models4
- Cross Platform3
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- Initial load time3
- Hard to inject javascript2
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What is Blazor?
Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.
What is Retool?
Retool is the fast way to build internal tools. Drag-and-drop our building blocks and connect them to your databases and APIs to build your own tools, instantly. Built by developers, for developers. Trusted by startups and Fortune 500s.
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What are some alternatives to Blazor and Retool?
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Vaadin
It is the fastest way to build web applications in Java. It automates the communication between your server and the browser and gives you a high-level component API for all Vaadin components
Xamarin
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Flutter
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.