ant-design-blazor/docs/introduce.en-US.md

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title: Ant Design of Blazor
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Following the Ant Design specification, we developed a Blazor Components library `ant-design-blazor` that contains a set of high quality components and demos for building rich, interactive user interfaces.

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## ✨ Features

- 🌈 Enterprise-class UI interactive language and visual style.
- 📦 Out-of-the-box, high-quality Razor components that can be shared in a variety of hosting models.
- 💕 Supports WebAssembly-based client-side and SignalR-based server-side UI event interaction.
- 🎨 Supports Progressive Web Applications (PWA).
- 🛡 Build with C#, a multi-paradigm static language for an efficient development experience.
- ⚙️ NET Standard 2.1 based, with direct reference to the rich .NET ecosystem.
- 🎁 Seamless integration with existing ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages projects.

## 🌈 Online Examples

WebAssembly static hosting examples:

- [Gitee](https://ant-design-blazor.gitee.io/)
- [GitHub](https://ant-design-blazor.github.io/)

## 🖥 Environment Support

- .NET Core 3.1
- Blazor WebAssembly 3.2 Release
- Supports two-way binding on the server side
- Supports WebAssembly static file deployment
- Support 4 major browsers engines, and Internet Explorer 11+ ([Blazor Server](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/supported-platforms?view=aspnetcore-3.1) only)
- Run directly on [Electron](http://electron.atom.io/) and other Web standards-based environments

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> Due to [WebAssembly](https://webassembly.org) restriction, Blazor WebAssembly doesn't support IE browser, but Blazor Server supports IE 11† with additional polyfills. See [official documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/supported-platforms?view=aspnetcore-3.1)

## 💿 Current Version

- Development: [![AntBlazor](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/AntBlazor.svg?color=red&style=flat-square)](https://www.nuget.org/packages/AntBlazor/)

- 0.1.0：will be released after basic implementation of components

## 🎨 Design Specification

Regularly synchronize with Official Ant Design specifications, you can check the [sync logs](https://github.com/ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Style+sync+Bot%22) online.

## 📦 Installation Guide

- Install [.NET Core SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1) 3.1.300  or later

- Create Blazor WebAssembly Project

  ```bash
  $ dotnet new blazorwasm -o MyAntBlazorApp
  ```

- Go to the project folder of the application and install the Nuget package reference

  ```bash
  $ cd MyAntBlazorApp
  $ dotnet add package AntBlazor --version 0.1.0-*
  ```

- Register the services

  ```csharp
  services.AddAntBlazor();
  ```

- Link the static files in `wwwroot/index.html` (WebAssembly) or `Pages/_Host.razor` (Server)

  ```html
  <link href="_content/AntBlazor/css/ant-design-blazor.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  <script src="_content/AntBlazor/js/ant-design-blazor.js"></script>
  ```

- Add namespace in `_Imports.razor`

  ```csharp
  @using AntBlazor
  ```

- Finally, it can be referenced in the `.razor' component!

  ```html
  <AntButton Type="primary">Hello World!</AntButton>
  ```

## 🔨 Local Development

- Install [.NET Core SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download) 3.1.300 or later.
- Install Node.js (only for building style files and interoperable TypeScript files)
- Clone to local development

  ```bash
  $ git clone git@github.com:ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor.git
  $ cd ant-design-blazor
  $ npm install
  $ npm start
  ```

- Visit https://localhost:5001 in your supported browser and check [local development documentation](https://github.com/ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor/wiki) for details.

  > Visual Studio 2019 is recommended for development.

## 🔗 Links

- [Ant Design Blazor Documentation](https://ant-design-blazor.gitee.io)
- [Official Blazor Documentation](https://blazor.net)

## 🗺 Roadmap

Check out this [issue](https://github.com/ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor/issues/21) to learn about our development plans for 2020.

## 🤝 Contributing

[![PRs Welcome](https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor/pulls)

If you would like to contribute, feel free to create a [Pull Request](https://github.com/ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor/pulls), or give us [Bug Report](https://github.com/ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor/issues/new).

## ❓ Community Support

If you encounter any problems in the process, feel free to ask for help via following channels. We also encourage experienced users to help newcomers.

- [![Slack Group](https://img.shields.io/badge/Slack-AntBlazor-blue.svg?style=flat-square&logo=slack)](https://join.slack.com/t/antblazor/shared_invite/zt-cw1enker-xVw3s93cTf4uhY2lRGRyRw) (Chinese & English)
- [![Ding Talk Group](https://img.shields.io/badge/DingTalk-AntBlazor-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](https://h5.dingtalk.com/circle/healthCheckin.html?corpId=dingccf128388c3ea40eda055e4784d35b88&2f46=c9b80ba5&origin=11) (Chinese)

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## ☀️ License

[![AntBlazor](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor/blob/master/LICENSE)