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Babylon is a good choice for 3D graphics on the web. Anything that you can do in JavaScript you can do in Blazor, so I’m going to put some 3D in my web app using C#.
First, I’m going to create a Babylon component that I can drop onto a Blazor page and then I’m going to see if I can shift all the Babylon manipulation up from Javascript into C# with a full Babylon interop layer.
Blazor is a godsend for C# developers who want to build web applications. I’ve found building web apps in Blazor quick and easy, but there are a couple of fish-hooks that could catch you out. CORS is one.
I had a server-side app that was working fine. Turning a server-side Blazor app into a client-side Blazor app is mostly painless, but this time nothing worked.
The app was making a call to an API but from the client-side version of the app, all the calls failed. They’d been blocked by the browser’s CORS policy.
The answer was to build a CORS proxy. Here’s what I did.
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