Blazor GUI Interface

[scovetta]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The local HTML file can get very large; architecturally, embedding everything in it may not be the best solution.

Describe the solution you'd like
Instead of generating a static HTML file, use a local web-server that serves the content. The advantage of this is that for large reports, we don't need to create a large HTML file, and can instead stream the results as needed, and potentially perform operations on the "server" instead of within the browser.

Describe alternatives you've considered
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Additional context
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[guyacosta]

It's true with a large source to scan the output.html may become quite large -have only seen once but it is bound to happen for some users.
These are some possibilities I'm looking into including:
http://nancyfx.org/ (also see https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetKatana/)
https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetKatana/

We'll be prioritizing this alongside other goals for our General Audience release -TBD.

[gfs]

Consider a rewrite using Blazor. You could do what ASA does and have an appinspector gui command that pops up your GUI with a scan button and then transition into results saved from a cache (maybe write the results to a DB if you want. Or just cache them in memory)

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

[gfs]

If we rewrite this in blazor we will could also host a live webassembly version

[gfs]

We should create a new blazor UX that allows the user to load/save a JSON report and view it either via running the command line via "appinspector gui" or by visiting our hosted WASM on github pages.

The GUI should have the ability to:
Run the Analyze Command on a Path, optionally with custom rules
Run the Get Tags command on a Path, optionally with custom rules
Show the results of either the Get Tags or Analyze Command
Save the results of the Get Tags or Analyze command as JSON
Load the saved JSON result for Get Tags or Analyze commands
List all the tags found
Show the lighted feature boxes like the current UI
Show the full list of files scanned and their statuses
Show all the files which matched a tag, click on a file to see the snippet
Show all the tags which matched a file, click on a tag to view the tag view with all files the tags applied to
Show the general metadata gathered
Show the rules used

[gfs]

.net 6.0 now allows using a blazor interface with maui. Maybe worth checking that out - create a blazor report viewer that can be distributed as a standalone app with maui.