Convert Bootstrap Template to a Blazor Application (Part 1)

There are a lot of free Bootstrap them web sites available, just google: free bootstrap themes.  It got me thinking what would it take to convert a simple web site to Blazor?    

I found a nice single page web site called Freelancer .  It is a personal web site that allows the author to display their portfolio of projects.  It contains information about the author and a contact me form.   

I decided to do a little more than just convert it over.  I want to make it more dynamic and generic so I can use it on multiple web sites.  This is the part one of a set of 7 blog posts that cover what it took to get it all done.

Download  

I downloaded the template and opened it in Visual Code.  I reviewed the code and then I ran it.  It is a cure little site.   

Start the Blazor Application 

  • Create a Server side Blazor application 
  • Run the Blazor application and make sure everything is building and running correctly. 
  • Remove un-needed template artifacts 
    • Data Folder 
    • Counter Page 
    • FetchData page 
    • Remove the Weather Forecast Service from start up 
  • Copy over the static content 
    • CSS  
    • Images 
    • Javascript 
    • SCSS 
    • Vendor Folder 
  • Add the CSS files to _Html.cshtml 
       <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css" /> 
       <link href="vendor/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 
       <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 
       <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700,400italic,700italic" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 
  • Add the javasciprt file to _Html.cshtml 
       <script src="vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script> 
  • For the main CSS file, you can either replace the site.css file with the freelancer.css file, or you can do what I need.  I open site.css, deleted all the lines and pasted in the lines from freelancer.css. 
  • Open index.razor and paste the html from the freelancer body html. 
  • Change the title to “Blazor Static Bootstrap” 
  • Add your personal Avator 

At this point we should be able to run the application and at least see the same web site with the CSS applied. 


We can see it is running from local host and the top title has changed to “Blazor Static Bootstrap”. 

What is not working 

It looks nice, but the template is JavaScript based for handling events.  We did not move over any of the JavaScript files.  We need to test a little and see what is not working between the HTML based one and our Blazor application. 

Items not functioning 

  1. Top menu is not working 
  2. Top menu is not responsive 
  3. Clicking on the Portfolio is not displaying the modal 
  4. Go to Top button on a small screen is not working. 

Ok, so we have some work to do.  In part 2 we will look at the nav. 

[Source Code]

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Yes, Blazor Server can scale!

Image
From the very beginning of the release of Blazor Server naysayers have incorrectly stated that Blazor Server can not scale.  They usually state that the limit is 5,000 concurrent users. There are several misconceptions and wrong assumptions about their statement.  Let's break it down and get a better understanding of Blazor server-side scaling. What is the "limit" for users When Microsoft talks about the need to scale an application, what they are saying is that when a normal response for any concurrent user is taking longer than 200 ms, the system is not performant and needs to scale. We will accept that definition: If any normal user response is taking longer than 200 ms, the system needs to scale for concurrent users. By a normal response, we are referring to a page get, a post, etc.  Large database access requests would not be included in this measurement. What is scaling There are 2 common ways to scale, scale, out horizontally, and scale-up, up vertically. In our di...
Read more

Blazor - Cool Blur Loading Page

Image
  I was working on a project and wanted an original way of showing the user the application was loading besides using the normal "Loading...." text.  I came across a website page and thought I could refactor that into what I was looking for. When my application starts, it displays a full-screen image with a count down while the page loads.  As a special effect, I want to unblur the image the closer it gets to the applicaiton finishing loading.  Once the teh count down is done, we pause for 1 sec, for effect, then proceed to the application.  I think it turned out pretty cool.  See the demo here . I used the server side Blazor project template in my example, but the code should work on any Blazor template. Template changes 1. Rename the original Index.razor page to "home".  Besure to change the routing at the top of the page as well.      @page "/home" 2. Create a new Index.razor page     a. Add routing      ...
Read more

Blazor new and improved Search Box

 Back in March, I posted a new Blazor data grid with a search box ( see post ).  Since then I have found a new and improved search box that I wanted to implement.  The search part is implemented the same.  What I added was the ability for the user to narrow down the search by selecting which field they wanted to search on.  This will help the user find what they are looking for and in a large collection, the search will end up being faster. The goal of making the change was to make the search box a new component and have it handle the UI functionality part. Prep Work Here is the prep work I did before adding the search box: Started with the source code from the post listed above. Upgraded the project to .Net 5 Upgraded the Nuget packages that were out of date. Ensured every build and run. Change to a Component I wanted to create a component for the search box so I could use it in other applications.   1. Create a Folder under UIControls called "SearchB...
Read more