Blazor server-side Polyfills and fixes for Internet Explorer 11 & Edge Legacy (EdgeHTML engine).
- Installation
- Recommendations & Troubleshooting
- About
- Using Telerik Blazor Component or MatBlazor on IE11
BlazorPolyfill.Server NuGet package can be either found on nuget.org or from the latest release page on this repository.
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(Optional) If updating from Blazor.Polyfill 3.0.8, please remove any reference to blazor.polyfill.js or blazor.polyfill.min.js from your _Host.cshtml code, or any static file about the library you would link to in your code, as the library is now embedded is the NuGet package, and managed by _framework/blazor.polyfill.min.js as a magic path.
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Install the BlazorPolyfill.Server package interactively from the NuGet Package manager in Visual Studio.
- If installing for .NET 6.x and .NET 7.x, please install the 7.0.203.1.
- If installing for .NET 5.x, please install the 5.0.102 version.
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Or install it from the Package Manager CLI with this command:
- For .NET 6.x and .NET 7.x
Install-Package BlazorPolyfill.Server - For .NET 5.x
Install-Package BlazorPolyfill.Server -Version 5.0.102
- For .NET 6.x and .NET 7.x
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Or additional syntax and possibilities available from the NuGet package page
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In your _Host.cshtml page, include _framework/blazor.polyfill.min.js file before the _framework/blazor.server.js script tag. The end of your page should look like this:
<script src="_framework/blazor.polyfill.min.js"></script>
<script src="_framework/blazor.server.js"></script>- In your Startup.cs file, in your ConfigureServices method, add services.AddBlazorPolyfill() at the end of your services declaration:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddRazorPages();
services.AddServerSideBlazor();
services.AddSingleton<WeatherForecastService>();
services.AddBlazorPolyfill();
}- In your Startup.cs file, in your Configure method, add app.UseBlazorPolyfill() just before app.UseStaticFiles():
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
/* Some code */
app.UseBlazorPolyfill();
app.UseStaticFiles();
/* Some code */
}- You are good to go ! Blazor server-side with .NET 5 / .NET 6 should be able load on Internet Explorer 11 & Edge
NOTE: blazor.polyfill.js content will be kind of empty automatically if the detected browser, through the user-agent, is something else than Internet Explorer or Edge Legacy.
Due to the lack ES6 and dynamic module import support on old browsers like Internet Explorer 11, some powerful functionalities like javascript isolation is not available. This cannot be polyfilled directly as it's a missing browser and language feature.
However this can be done by creating a ES5 compatible bundle library, that will mimic the dynamic import behavior at runtime.
The NuGet package BlazorPolyfill.Build has been done to make this automatic at build time.
Here are the step to install it:
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Install NPM on your system.
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Install BlazorPolyfill.Build NuGet package on your Blazor server project.
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Move your Javascript modules that you want to be bundled in the wwwroot/js/modules of your project. The current implementation will only look in this folder by Design, during the bundling process.
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Build your Blazor server project.
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If everything goes right, initial build step and bundling with webpack, your project build should succeed. An es5module.js file and an es5module.min.js file should be now visible in /wwwroot path.
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(Optional) You may add theses files in your .gitignore file, as they will be generated at build time.
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Open your Startup.cs file and in configure, enable the JavascriptModuleImportEmulation option:
app.UseBlazorPolyfill((options) => { options.JavascriptModuleImportEmulation = true; /* This is the default value if not set */ options.JavascriptModuleImportEmulationLibraryPath = "/es5module.min.js"; });
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Replace any import keyword in your web project by _import_ instead.
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Launch your web application. If your browser need ES5 fallback, or if your have forced it through the additional options (See Additional options), the es5module.min.js will be automatically loaded in the page, and will try to emulate module import calls. If the browser is not in ES5 falback mode, it will call the regular import keyword instead.
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Here an example like on this Microsoft documentation: Blazor JavaScript isolation and object references should now work, with our little changes:
Assuming a js file called exampleJsInterop.js placed in /wwwroot/js/modules folder:
export function showPrompt(message) { return prompt(message, 'Type anything here'); }
In your .razor page will be written like this:
var module = await js.InvokeAsync<IJSObjectReference>( "_import_", "/js/modules/exampleJsInterop.js");However due to some context limitation, the _import_ may fail if the current app root path you are targeting is not a rooted URL. This mean:
- This should work by default: https://127.0.0.1/[blazorpage]
- This should not work by default: https://127.0.0.1/myotherapp/managingsomeurl/[blazorpage]
In order to workaround this limitation, you may have to compute the relative path by yourself in C# before calling _import_, and give it in addition, as a second parameter, the webRootPath. For our second URL example, https://127.0.0.1/myotherapp/managingsomeurl/[blazorpage], this would be instead:
var module = await js.InvokeAsync<IJSObjectReference>( "_import_", "/js/modules/exampleJsInterop.js", "/myotherapp/managingsomeurl/");You should find some hint with the NavigationManager.BaseURI service / property.
See the Microsoft documentation for the Blazor API usage.
With the es5module.js library loaded, when the expected module path and name is detected, it will internally return an object scoped on what it should have exported with a native import call. It has also converted all ES6/ES2015 syntax back to ES5.
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File path and name are case-sensitive, but this may be changed in the future.
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All given path with _import_ are considered as absolute path. Any other kind of input will be internally converted to an absolute path format. You should take this into consideration while calling your JS file in code.
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Only the modules placed in the /wwwroot/js/modules folder will be bundled. This is by Design. This mean that there is no Razor Class Library (RCL) bundling support, like _content/* js libraries.
However feel free provide a PR that implement this !
You can configure additional options through the UseBlazorPolyfill method with a BlazorPolyfillOptions object instance or configuration delegate. Here some kind of example:
app.UseBlazorPolyfill(
(options) => {
options.ForceES5Fallback = false;
options.ES5FallbackValidation = (HttpRequest request) =>
{
//Add your custom polyfill validation logic here.
//The current example always validate polyfill behavior
//but you can check User-Agent or other things
//in the 'request' parameter.
return true;
};
});Options:
// Specify the conversion scope of Javascript files to ES5 during application lifetime.
// Read the enum description for the detailled behaviors.
//
// Default value is ES5ConversionScope.None
//
// Here are the enum descriptions:
// If None is selected, only the blazor.server.js file will be converted to ES5.
// This is the minimum requirement and goal of this library.
// ES5ConversionScope.None = 0,
// If RazorClassLibraries is selected, only the blazor.server.js file and any Razor Class Library loaded in the project will be converted to ES5.
// Razor Class Library are any library loaded from a package that you reference through a special URI starting by '_content/' in your project.
// ES5ConversionScope.RazorClassLibrary = 1,
// If All is selected, any Javascript file will be converted to ES5
// ES5ConversionScopeAll = 2
// Additional note: If you use any third party library as Razor Class Library (RCL) for Blazor through NuGet, it's highly recommended
// to set at least the enum level to ES5ConversionScope.RazorClassLibrary, as you don't have direct control to any packaged libraries easily.
// Another note is that the ESConversionScope behavior is also linked to any ES5 fallback behavior logic, like ForceES5Fallback property or ES5FallbackValidation method.
public ES5ConversionScope ES5ConversionScope { get; set; }
// If the ForceES5Fallback parameter is set to true,
// the blazor.polyfill.js library content will always be returned
// and the blazor.server.js library will always be transpiled to ES5 with the needed fixes.
//
// If this parameter is set to false, only Internet Explorer 11 and Edge Legacy will have
// the ES5 fallback behavior.
//
// Default value is false.
public bool ForceES5Fallback { get; set; }
// Provide a method that validate if the current request should return the ES5 Fallback behavior or not.
// This can be useful if you want to extend the polyfill to some other browsers and/or conditions specific values.
//
// Note that if ForceES5Fallback option is set to true, the ES5FallbackValidation return value
// will have no effect.
//
// Also, Internet Explorer 11 and Edge Legacy will always return the ES5 Fallback behavior in all scenarios.
public Func<HttpRequest, bool> ES5FallbackValidation { get; set; }
// Provide a method that expose a Javascript file that must be converted to ES5, in case you
// wish to alter it before transformation.
// First parameter is the file path from request,
// Second parameter is the original file content,
// Return value is the content that will be provided for the ES5 transformer
public Func<string, string, string> BeforeES5TransformHandler { get; set; }
// Allow to bind a custom method that will be called when an internal ES5 conversion
// event fail in order to track down the cause.
// First parameter is the source file path
// Second parameter is the Blazor.Polyfill.Server exception when the exception occur
// with the innerException that thrown.
public Action<string, Exception> OnES5ConvertFailure { get; set; }
// If enabled, the polyfill library will assume that you have added the BlazorPolyfill.Build library to your project
// and will try to load the generated ES5 scripts version of your javascript modules at boot after the polyfill library
// initialization on client side.
//
// You can customize the expected library path and name to load through JavascriptModuleImportEmulationLibraryPath property
public bool JavascriptModuleImportEmulation { get; set; }
// Get or set the value of the path location of your ES5 javascript library file that emulate your regular javascript modules,
// generated from the BlazorPolyfill.Build package. The path given will be used to load your modules after the polyfill
// initialization. Default value is: "/es5module.min.js"
public string JavascriptModuleImportEmulationLibraryPath { get; set; }
// If set to true, the returned blazor.server.js file for ES5 compatibility will be a packaged one in this library
// instead of the one generated dynamically. It's not recommended in the sense that this usage prevent the automatic update
// of the blazor.server.js library if you install newer version of Blazor Server, and would maybe add issue. This option
// is a convenience for users who cannot dynamically transpile with React.NET/Babel because of missing JS engines for their
// platform or having issue with it, typically like ARM32v7 OS's.
public bool UsePackagedBlazorServerLibrary { get; set; }- Download the Blazor.Polyfill 3.0.8 release and include the blazor.polyfill.js or blazor.polyfill.min.js file before the blazor.server.js script tag in your wwwroot\index.html or _Host.cshtml file like:
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/blazor.polyfill.min.js"></script>
<script src="_framework/blazor.server.js"></script>...considering you have copied the file in a wwwroot/js folder.
- If you want this file to be loaded only if this is Internet Explorer actually running, you may write this instead:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (/MSIE \d|Trident.*rv:/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
document.write('<script src="js/blazor.polyfill.min.js"><\/script>');
}
</script>
<script src="_framework/blazor.server.js"></script>Not all OS's or CPU architectures are supported for the dynamic transpilation, or some environments like Azure, base Docker images, or else, may miss some required dependencies.
Everything should work out of the box on:
- Windows (x86, x64, ARM64, ARM)
- OSX (x64)
- Linux (x64)
Theses platforms are supported but the environment requirements may have issue depending the configuration:
- Linux (ARM64)
- Microsoft Azure
Theses platforms are unsupported:
- Linux (x86)
- Any Docker Linux image on ARM64 or Linux on ARM64 that don't have the GLIBCXX_3.4.26 lib installed on the system. This lib is required by the V8 JS Engine. ChakraCore does not support ARM64 on Linux at all.
- Any ARM32v7 environment, except Windows ARM.
If you are on an unsupported environment, consider disabling the transpilation process with BlazorPolyfill, and use a packaged versions of the fixed blazor.server.js. Here are the steps:
- In your Startup class, set the preventReactServicesRegistration parameter to true on AddBlazorPolyfill, like below:
public class Startup { public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { /* Other services registrations */ services.AddBlazorPolyfill(true); } }
- In your Startup class, set the UsePackagedBlazorServerLibrary option on UseBlazorPolyfill to true, like below:
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env) { /* Other method calls */ app.UseBlazorPolyfill((options) => { options.UsePackagedBlazorServerLibrary = true; }); }
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As stated for unsupported platforms, you may stop the automatic behavior by disabling automatic registration by setting the preventReactServicesRegistration parameter to true:
public class Startup { public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { /* Other services registrations */ services.AddBlazorPolyfill(true); } }
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Then you will have to do all the registration by yourself. This include calling in your Startup class:
- AddReact (ConfigureServices)
- AddJsEngineSwitcher (ConfigureServices)
- UseReact (Configure), ideally before UseBlazorPolyfill
This are the required polyfills and fixes in order to launch Blazor from Internet Explorer 11 & Edge Legacy (EdgeHTML engine).
This project is using the following polyfills internally:
- core-js
- web-animations-js
- fetch
- template
- Navigator.sendBeacon
- abortcontroller-polyfill
- after
- canvas-to-blob
Also an usage of babel-standalone through ReactJS.NET library for the alteration of the blazor.server.js library on-the-fly, in order to transpile code to ES5.
NOTE: that the blazor.polyfill.js file return an "empty" javascript content if the browser is not Internet Explorer 11 or Edge Legacy.
Only using Polyfills was not sufficient in order to make it working on IE11 and Edge.
The blazor.server.js library is dynamicaly altered at the first app request. The altered returned version is ONLY returned for IE11 and Edge, other browsers will receive the regular file packaged by Microsoft.
The library is altered on the fly because the Microsoft library may update in the future in your app, and we always want to have the current latest version of the library to be modified at startup.
Some events are done before the final file result is cached on the server:
- Fixing Regular Expressions issues for IE11, by removing named capturing groups in the library and related regexp properties expecting to be accessed this way.
- Transpiling the blazor.server.js file to ES5 with babel-standalone for the IE11 profile. That's why there is some dependencies on ReactJS.NET package, that is embedding babel-standalone internally.
- Minifying the library content again as babel return a non-minified version of the code
- Then the result is cached for application lifetime for all IE11 requests, and so for the browser caching logic (ETag, Modified-Since headers...)
Telerik Blazor Component or MatBlazor may not work out of the box on IE11.
This is not related to a missing functionality of Blazor.Polyfill, as it is sufficient to launch Blazor on IE11 with it, but just the fact that some functionalities used by Telerik Blazor component are not available on it.
Some additional polyfills will be required in addition of Blazor.Polyfill, to make the Telerik Blazor Component library work on it.
You will need:
- Element.prototype.closest polyfill
- document.IntersectionObserver polyfill
- document.QuerySelector polyfill
- Array.prototype.forEach
- NodeList.prototype.forEach
Using polyfill.io you could load your Blazor app like this instead:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (/MSIE \d|Trident.*rv:/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
document.write('<script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=Element.prototype.closest%2CIntersectionObserver%2Cdocument.querySelector%2Cfeatures=Array.prototype.forEach%2CNodeList.prototype.forEach"><\/script>');
}
</script>
<!-- Your blazor.polyfill.js and blazor.server.js scripts -->