Introduction

The primary reason for this application is to explore obtaining data from a publicly available API (preferably a free one).

Secondary reasons are

• To look at the new (in .NET 8) Blazor render modes to see if I can adopt one approach as a 'standard' for my simple applications
• To investigate use of secrets.json as an alternative to appsettings.json for better security.
• To investigate Azure Key Vault as an alternative to secrets.json for even better security.

Where to start?

First, I think I need to know something about render modes in .NET 8