fluentui-blazor VS awesome-blazor

Oh wow, thanks for the reference https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-blazor

Have you tried https://www.fluentui-blazor.net/ ? As a backend myself I'm curious to give it a try.

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-blazor

Microsoft Fluent UI library for Blazor: https://github.com/microsoft/fast-blazor Has templates available as well

This is probably the closest thing to an official component library now: https://github.com/microsoft/fast-blazor

There's also Fast Blazor which uses Fluent design and is maintained by Microsoft (a Blazor wrapper of their fast design webcomponents), but it's relatively quite new so it's likely lacking some components.

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.

For the app I'm starting today, I'm going with FAST https://github.com/microsoft/fast-blazor and making a design-system. This is a new direction for me, I've been doing SASS with variables and have the theming at build-time.

Since I don’t know what theme constraints you might have, I’d check out this and go to the ‘Component Bundles’ section under ‘Libraries and Extensions’. There are some good open source component libraries that should offer at least one good date picker alternative that you could drop in for the licensed one causing you issues.

Querying a (MySQL) database can be done in multiple ways in .NET, I usually prefer to use Entity Framework Core. For components, I like to use the MudBlazor component library. It also has an autocomplete component. If you want to look at different options for Blazor libraries/components(and more) you can take a look at this awesome collection.

Anyhow, there are a few similar sites at https://blazorschool.com/ and https://blazor-university.com/ , and if you're serious about it there are a ton of resources catalogued at https://github.com/AdrienTorris/awesome-blazor

https://github.com/AdrienTorris/awesome-blazor, specifically under the Libraries & Extensions section.

It is usually true that Microsoft's documentation falls behind their implementations, but it does eventually catch up. But this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/?view=aspnetcore-6.0 isn't all that bad. There are a lot of resources here https://github.com/AdrienTorris/awesome-blazor too.