Add Razor Component templating for Minimal Api

[ziaulhasanhamim]

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There is no proper way to create server-rendered apps using minimal APIs. Despite all the hype about single-page applications and progressive web apps, server-rendered websites are still better for many use cases. However, unlike web APIs, server-rendered websites didn't undergo much modernization in .NET. In .NET 8, we got Blazor SSR, which, when combined with minimal APIs, can be a great way to create server-rendered websites.

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Razor components represent a modern approach for rendering HTML dynamically in .NET. While they can be utilized with minimal APIs via RazorComponentResult, this method lacks practicality. A well-established framework for creating websites using minimal APIs and razor components would be highly beneficial. Much like minimal APIs, it would attract new programmers.
This is a prototype project demonstrating the advantages of this approach. However, it does not fully showcase the potential of this approach, as it is just some workarounds and it is quite verbose.

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[javiercn]

@ziaulhasanhamim thanks for contacting us.

This is not a direction we currently plan to take in the foreseeable future; we are focusing on improvements to the existing framework which we believe offers a more general and structured approach to building web applications.