Centralizing Routes in Blazor with a Static Class

In a Blazor project, it’s common to use routes for navigating between pages. One interesting approach is to centralize the definition of these routes in a static class. This offers several advantages, especially when evolving your application.

Example of Centralization

Consider the following class that defines all your routes:

Then, in your Blazor components, instead of hardcoding the route in the

attribute, you can reference these constants:

Why Centralize Your Routes?

1. Simplified Maintenance

When you reference your routes via constants, modifying a route becomes trivial. Instead of searching your entire codebase to update a hardcoded string, you only need to update the value in the central class. This ensures consistency throughout your application and reduces the risk of navigation errors.

2. Easy Reference in Code

When navigating (for example, using the

service), you can directly refer to these constants. This avoids typos and simplifies finding all references to a specific route in your project.

3. Comparison with Angular

This pattern is very similar to how Angular handles its routes. In Angular, it’s common to define the routes in the app-routing.module.ts file. By centralizing your routes in Blazor, you benefit from a uniform and consistent approach that makes transitioning between technologies and adopting best practices much easier.

Conclusion

Centralizing routes in a static class in Blazor is a practice that simplifies maintenance and enhances the robustness of your application. If a route needs to be modified, a single update in your

class automatically propagates to all your components. This results in more readable and less error-prone code, all while following a strategy similar to Angular.