Blazorise VS MudBlazor

I made a Blazor component library for one of my personal projects that failed, but the component library lived on as an open-source project called Blazorise [1].

In late 2019, I got a well-paid job in a large local company because of the project reference. Unfortunately, COVID happened, and I lost that same job after a few months. So again, because of Blazorise, I got several other gigs as a freelancer.

But after a while, it was hard to do all the work on the projects and do freelance jobs at the same time. Not to mention that family time was also very limited.

So I decided to commercially license Blazorise to companies, and keep it free for individuals. Hopefully, the decision paid off. Today I run a small company and continue to work on Blazorise full time. We're still fully bootstraped without any external funds.

[1] https://blazorise.com/

https://blazorise.com is fully done on Blazor. Also the support forum https://blazorise.com/support

Da, vidi https://blazorise.com/

I am working on form that run dynamic sql query in database and populates the results in datagrid. I don't know how many columns will return by the query. So I populate my resuts in DataTable, but unable to display on datagrid. Relevant issue [Feature] Full featured work with DataTable in DataGrid · Issue #701 · Megabit/Blazorise (github.com) . Does anyone know workaround for this.

Making Blazor run on Linux was a lot of hard work. Mainly because there is no official support from Microsoft (but even that doesn't always help, as you will see in the next section about macOS). I tried to make it work with 3 different community driven projects: Electron.NET, Chromely and Photino. Electron is very bloated and very slow - it takes for ever to start debugging from Visual Studio. I also hated that it first opens a console window and then the Blazor window. I don't want to see 2 windows open. Chromely also first opens a console window and then the Blazor window. I couldn't make it work in Linux. That leaves Photino. It comes with a Blazor sample that works in Linux without a problem. But my project didn't work in Linux with Photino. I found out that the problem was loading content for https://github.com/Megabit/Blazorise from the \wwwroot\_content folder. I sumbitted a GitHub issue and the problem was fixed in Photino.Blazor v2.5.0

I did something similar with Blazorise, a personal project of mine, https://blazorise.com/. It started as a hobby project. After some time it grew too large that it took most of my time, not to mention the time I could spend with my wife and son. Things changed during the Covid when I was laid off. Then I started freelancing for a while, and last year I finally took a big step and went full-time with Blazorise. Switched to dual licensing, where larger enterprises must purchase a commercial license. It is working, and hopefully, it will continue to work. Or otherwise, my wife will rage on me :/

My guess is that they're using component libraries (like Blazorise) rather than write components themselves.

Our website is updated as well: MudBlazor - Blazor Component Library

Though I can't develop beautiful UI and good UX even if my life depended on it. I can write a functional front-end, but don't expect it to be pretty. I usually ask for assistance regarding that from our UX designers instead where they essentially layout the whole UI (either on figma or Photoshop) so I just need to make it functional. Component based frameworks these days (JS, and Blazor) really helps at least. The UX guys usually make sharable base components that the company needs (buttons, grids, etc...), which includes all the styling and animations and we use those instead to create decent looking UI. For personal stuff I use MudBlazor which kinda does the same, but I do know a bit of css to customize when needed.

There are a ton of component libraries out there. I like the mudblazor library. https://mudblazor.com

There are grid controls from the usual commercial vendors like Radzen and Telerik. I used them briefly during a free trial. It has a funny name, but MudBlazor [1] has been the MIT licensed library I have been using lately. I have been using their Table control, which may be what you are looking for in a data grid. [2] Check it out and see.

[1] https://mudblazor.com/

[2] https://mudblazor.com/components/table#api

It seems to be a known issue a known issue. By default, external libraries such as MudBlazor are not trimmed

I recommend Mud blazor if you're going for Material design. For other design languages Andt Blazor's pretty polished and there's Blazorise as well if you want to be flexible (it supports Antd, Bulma, Bootstrap and Material via configuration).

The ones I've used that's pretty good are MudBlazor (Material Design), Antd blazor (Antd), and Blazorise (Multi design support via configuration). There's also the newly announced Fluent UI for Blazor at MS build that's from MS themselves but I haven't tried it yet.

There's Uno that's been talked about by MS community standups if you wanna use UWP XAML to do the Job. If you wanted to use Blazor though, you'll have to at least learn a bit of CSS and Html. Luckily you can find really nice component libraries like mudblazor that does a lot of the nitty gritty html + styling for you. So you'll just have to use their components most of the time and with little to no JS required (depending in your usecase).