Make an E-Commerce Website with Blazor WebAssembly in .NET 6 (Udemy.com)

This was an amazing course to take. Not only do you learn Blazor, but you also learn a plethora of other items. I now understand how a front-end client communicates with a back-end server and how to set up proper routing for API calls. Additionally, the addition of Swagger was amazing as an API reference. Adding the Stripe implementation for payment processing w/ webhook updates was also something I was not expecting to see. I loved that we added our own CSS throughout the course (it was a great refresher on CSS for me) and then was introduced to MudBlazor at the end. Overall if I could give this course a 100/5 stars I would. I HIGHLY recommend this for any developer looking to pick up a new skill.

Edit: I came back to edit my review and change it from 2 stars to 3.5 stars. Going back through the material there is actually a lot of useful information in the first quarter of the course and I have been able to use it to create my own Blazow WASM app. I can't give it more than 3.5 stars though simply because there is so much missing from this course that could have been in it instead of spending the other 75% of it making an online store. For example, while there is info about Blazor there is nothing much in here about Web Assembly (e.g. making your app work offline, which is one of the most important features of WASM) My original review: This is not a Blazor WebAssembly tutorial. This is a tutorial in how to build an E-Commerce website that just so happens to be made using Blazor. No effort what-so-ever was made to teach Blazor WebAssembly at all. It's basically just a video of some guy coding away at lightning speed. He doesn't ever pause to explain what hes doing, he just tells you what he is typing as he types it. The further I got through the tutorial the more angry I got that he wasn't bothering to actually teach anything. If you want to learn Blazor WebAssembly then look elsewhere.

I enjoyed the course layout. I believe that part of the difficulties when learning a new tool is the project architecture. This course nailed it!. The author started with a walking skeleton, then he started building the app accordingly. I do recommend this course to every one with intermediate to advanced level of C#. It is important to refresh your self about Dependency injections and few other concepts. The course obviously cannot cover every aspect of C# or Web development. I believe the course layout is good enough. The learner must take this know-how and build his/her own project and practice with different libraries.

Overall a very great course. I feel like everything I learned was important and good coding practices were utilized throughout class. I actually liked the refactoring steps because in real life, there is always refactoring as the project develops. If someone tried to figure out the perfect way to write their code from the start, they would never write anything.

It is nice course but this course is not for beginners. you must have some experience in MVC, ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework and LINQ otherwise you will lost in the middle. There were many things where i felt lost. Patrik should have explained before writing the code that what we are going to develop. Just kept writing the code till the time output appears. Spent too much time in writing CSS. I think he could have used Bootstrap instead writing own CSS. Moreover there were many topics where more basic explaination was required like Claims, Authentication, Identity and HttpAccessor. But overall I liked the course and the way Patrick expalins. Loved it.

Great course, gives the student a good overview of the basic concepts of Blazor Webbassemblies, and a good foundation to build complex apps in the framework. Though I would have preferred that the teacher had spent less time typing in long segments of code, and more time in explaining what was going on, in each case. For example, typing in all the HTML based code into Razor components, letter by letter, element by element, is not of much educational value. Would have been better to just provide students with the HTML sections of the component, and explain afterwards how each section is built up. Actually, the teacher provides the finished components on his Github page, so if students want to follow along that way, they can, and that's what I did early on in the course. I just don't think it contributes to improving my skills and knowledge, typing in code segments letter by letter, that I have written countless times in other various apps I've built. Apart from this, great course, and the app that is built is very advanced. With some tweaks, it could possibly be used in commercial applications, in production. The app uses Stripe to receive payments, but of course all payments are fake.

I can't thank Patrick enough for putting this course together. After watching a few of his Youtube videos I found this course. This was an absolute game-changer for me. I am finishing up school with a BS in ISM so my experience was mostly with SQL and databases with very little coding exposure outside of very simple class assignments using C# or PHP that only tested connecting the database. This course allowed me to really test my skills as I was using a database-first (sorry!) approach so not only did I have to adapt to Patrick's design I also had to hope my own database was designed well enough to handle it. I am happy to report that after many, many hours of debugging and redesigning I have completed the app and this amazing course is to thank for that. Again, thank you Patrick for your in-depth explanation of every element that was used in the making of this application, I really learned a lot!

The creator of the course is superb at teaching, and I learnt a lot. There are some effort and tears that might happen when you are learning, but then I think about all the work the author of the course might have gone through not only to get it completed and done -it's not exactly easy code-, and then it all pass for and I feel fine. I completed my programming studies a couple of months ago after 4 years, and I was always interested in learning .NET, from the very beginning while combining that with other skills and programming languages they teach you, and this course is the best I've tried for now. Congrats to Patrick, his God last name kinda suits him well, :D, he is kinda the legendary creature. And thanks! p.s. it's possible that for some people the connection string might change to something like this instead of the string that works for Patrick. "server=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB;database=(....whatever comes aftewards).

This is a very good course demonstrating best practices while developing a Blazor wasm e-commerce site. However, if you are expecting to have a complete production ready e-commerce site at the end of the course then you will likely be disappointed as there are some key elements that are missing… • No email validation or password recovery for users (IMO - required for production) • No product inventory functionality. If you are selling one of something, there is nothing that prevents a customer from purchasing 20 (IMO - required for production). • No information about adding the Stripe webhook endpoints that are required for use on a production server (certainly required for production. • The order shipping address isn’t retrieved from stripe and saved with the order (not required for production but certainly helpful). • Single image for each product • No ability for admins to add or edit images through the user interface (just the url for the image). That said, this is a >16 hour course, and it does provide the knowledge base needed for most developers to successfully implement the missing components on their own. The instructor does an excellent job walking you through the development process, demonstrating the testing of each step, before moving on to the next function, however, it would have been helpful to have some whiteboard discussions explaining what the code is doing as well as having comments added to the solution file. Hopefully Patrick will follow this up with a Part-2!

I enjoyed everything except MudBlazor. You can’t go wrong with covering the core framework. I am a software engineer that is passionate about standard core features. When you start introducing major third party component frameworks, I am put right off. If I am interested in MudBlazor or any of the other third party component frameworks I would go learn about those. I would buy another of your courses if you do not bring in third party stuff like MudBlazor. Standard .NET technology is safe and transferrable. I can take my knowledge of .NET, ASP.NET Core and related framework anywhere. I personally use Blazor's built-in FileInput to upload files to the server via ASP.NET Core Web API, so I loved the file upload bits but hated MudBlazor. MudBlazor is subjective, it depends on an individual’s taste, it is not standard. MudBlazor almost made me reduce my rating. Thanks Patrick.