Project created by dotnet new blazor -int WebAssembly -ai cannot be deployed to a static web site

[Michael Leung]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Describe the bug

In .net 7, I can create 2 projects with dotnet blazorwasm --hosted and deploy the Client project to a static web site. My usage is to load this Client project into a MAUI WebView and the Client will call a specifc API server to do business.

In .net 8, I created 2 projects with dotnet new blazor -int WebAssembly -ai but there is no way to deploy the Client to a static web site to be loaded into MAUI WebView.

Expected Behavior

Same as previous blazorwasm --hosted, project created with dotnet new blazor -int WebAssembly -ai should be able to deploy to static web site.

Steps To Reproduce

1. dotnet new blazor -int WebAssembly -ai
2. Open in VS and publish to a folder
3. Copy the folder to a static web site

Exceptions (if any)

The static web site failed to load

.NET Version

.net 8

Anything else?

No response

[Javier Calvarro Nelson]

@leungkimming thanks for contacting us.

You need to create a standalone web assembly project and add a reference to it to an asp.net core server project. The default Blazor Web template with webassembly interactivity is configured to render the root document from a razor component and is not suitable for deploying into a static site.