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Blazor WASM's Deputy Thread Model Will Break JavaScript Interop - Here's Why That Matters

DEV Community: blazorΒ·Todd TannerΒ·about 1 month ago
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The Problem Microsoft is changing how .NET runs inside WebAssembly. When you enable threading with <WasmEnableThreads>true</WasmEnableThreads> , the entire .NET runtime moves off the browser's main thread and onto a background Web Worker β€” what they call the "Deputy Thread" model . This sounds like a good idea on paper. The UI stays responsive. .NET gets real threads. Everyone wins. Except it breaks JavaScript interop. Not in a subtle, edge-case way. It breaks it fundamentally . What Actually Happens In traditional Blazor WASM (no threading), .NET and JavaScript share the same thread. When JavaScript calls DotNet.invokeMethod , the CPU jumps from the JS stack to the C# stack and back. It's fast. It's synchronous. It works. In the Deputy Thread model, .NET lives in a Web Worker. JavaScript lives on the UI thread. They're in different worlds. When JavaScript tries to call DotNet.invokeMethod , the UI thread would have to block while waiting for the worker to respond. Browsers don't allow that.…

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