AOT for Blazor

AOT.md

• Install the latest preview SDK:

  • Install dotnet-install script from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-install-script
  • dotnet-install -Channel main -InstallDir <some-install-dir>
  • Add <some-install-dir> to your path so you're using it for the next steps

• Install the blazor-aot tool and acquire the SDK

  • dotnet new nugetconfig
  • edit the nuget.config file to include nightly feed:

    + <add key="aspnetcore" value="https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet6/nuget/v3/index.json" />

  • Install the tool

    dotnet new tool-manifest
    dotnet tool install dotnet-install-blazoraot --version 6.0.0-*
    

  • Run the tool to install workload + packs

    dotnet install-blazoraot
    

  • Due to a bug in the workload authoring, python needs to be manually installed on Windows and MacOS. Follow the instructions here https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html#platform-specific-notes to acquire it.

• Create a new Blazor WebAssembly app and enable AOT

  • dotnet new blazorwasm
  • Open up the project file and configure it to use AOT

    <PropertyGroup>
       <RunAOTCompilation>true</RunAOTCompilation>
    </PropertyGroup>

• dotnet publish

dotnet install-blazoraot

I think this should be dotnet dotnet-install-blazoraot?

I tried it today and had trouble with the latest version of the dotnet-install-blazoraot tool.

I was able to overcome it by installing the preview.3 version, like this: dotnet tool install dotnet-install-blazoraot --version 6.0.0-preview.3.

Update: recently I used preview.4 instead