Avalonia VS MudBlazor

WPF is not the best example of open source, as some components are still closed source. Though it only runs on Windows, a closed source operating system, so perhaps that is not so important.

https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2554

That said, there are cross platform, open source .NET UI frameworks out there, including one that is inspired by WPF:

https://avaloniaui.net/

You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.

[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].

The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.

See my comment [2]

[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128

Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.

Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/

Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."

(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )

It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.

Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.

[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)

I don't think that new Identity pages will work with MudBlazor out of the box. Take a look at this GitHub issue: https://github.com/MudBlazor/MudBlazor/issues/7805

The Blazor Server application uses the open source component MudBlazor, which I recommend to C# oriented developers. To keep the application simple, all data is stored in JSON files.

You could use Mudblazor and Codebeam Mud extensions.

Look up some Blazor UI / Component Libraries.Awesome-Blazor lists the more popular ones. The two I recommend are Mudblazor and Havit Blazor because the documentation is built using Blazor and the repos are open source on GitHub.

and you can use mudblazor components for free. https://mudblazor.com/

I'm creating a Blazor MAUI project using MudBlazor, and I'm looking for a way to refresh a page on Android using the pull to refresh feature. By now the best result I've found is to surround all the with a tag as shown here but this would mean refreshing the whole content on the page, NavMenu included. I've also tried to implement the BcdLib/PullComponent: with this one I can refresh only the body of the page but I can't achieve a smooth refresh animation like in the first method.

The load times and lighthouse score for the MUD Blazor site has put me off of Blazor entirely for anything public facing:

https://mudblazor.com/