Is it possible to get raw HTML from Razor/Blazor components?

Question

I'd like to set up a "mailer/newsletter" using MailKit. My site stack is based off of Blazor web assembly and uses .Razor components.

I'm wondering if there is a way to consume a razor component I've written to output HTML into the MimeMessage object I'm using to generate my email body and what that architecture would look like / the best way to accomplish this?

Similar question (though not Blazor):

• Can I use an ASP.Net MVC Razor view to generate an nicely formatted HTML Body as the input for an email sent from the server?

Answer 1

Late answer since I just saw this question: I wrote an alternative system called BlazorTemplater which uses .razor files instead of .cshtml since I had exactly this problem.

You can convert your templates to .razor format and then use BlazorTemplater to render to HTML:

var html = new ComponentRenderer<MyRazorClass>()
   .Set(c => c.SomeParameter = someValue)
   .Render();

It supports parameters, DI injection and nested components so you should find it useful! It's also much easier to set up and works in Razor Class Libraries too.