All rendered Blazor views descend from the ComponentBase
class, this includes Layouts, Pages, and also Components.
A Blazor page is essentially a component with a @page
directive that specifies the URL the browser must navigate to in order for it to be rendered. In fact, if we compare the generated code for a component and a page there is very little difference.
The following generated source code can be found in obj\Debug\netcoreapp3.0\Razor\Pages\Counter.razor.g.cs
for Blazor 3 apps, and in obj\Debug\{DotNetVersion{\generated\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.RazorSourceGenerator\Pages_Counter_razor.g.s
in Blazor 5 or later.
Note that after Blazor version 3 these automatically files are no longer automatically written to disk. To re-enable this feature, edit your csproj
file and add the following:
<PropertyGroup>
<EmitCompilerGeneratedFiles>true</EmitCompilerGeneratedFiles>
</PropertyGroup>
namespace MyFirstBlazorApp.Client.Pages { [Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.LayoutAttribute(typeof(MainLayout))] [Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.RouteAttribute("/counter")] public class Counter : Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.ComponentBase { protected override void BuildRenderTree(Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.RenderTree.RenderTreeBuilder builder) { // Code omitted for brevity } private int counter = 42; private void IncrementCounter() { counter++; } } }
[Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.RouteAttribute("/counter")]
identifies the URL for the page.
[Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.LayoutAttribute(typeof(MainLayout))]
identifies which layout to use.
In fact, because pages are merely components decorated with additional attributes, if you alter the Pages/Index.razor file of a default Blazor app, it is possible to embed the Counter page as a component.
@page "/" <h1>Hello, world!</h1> Welcome to your new app. <Counter/>

When embedding a page within another page, Blazor treats it as a component. The LayoutAttribute
on the embedded page is ignored because Blazor already has an explicit container – the parent component that contains it.