How do you send an HTTP GET request using HttpClient in Blazor?

An HTTP GET request can be sent to get a resource from the API server using the GetJsonAsync() method provided by the HttpClient class.

CSHTML

@page "/employee"
@inject HttpClient Http

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@code {
        Employee[] empList;

        protected override async Task OnInitializedAsync()
        {
            empList = await Http.GetJsonAsync<Employee[]>("/api/Employee/Index");
        }
}

WEB API

[HttpGet]
[Route("api/Employee/Index")]
public IEnumerable<Employee> Index()
{
    return employee.GetAllEmployees();
}