Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core

Enabling authentication using Identity

Authentication can be enabled by calling UseIdentity in the pipeline through the Configure method of the Startup class, as follows:

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,    IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)     {         loggerFactory.AddConsole();         if (env.IsDevelopment())         {             app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();         }         app.UseIdentity();         app.Run(async (context) =>         {             await context.Response.WriteAsync("Hello World!");         });     }

The app.UseIdentity method adds cookie-based authentication in the pipeline, which means that when the user is authenticated a cookie will be added in the browser and later used for authentication purposes. The App.UseIdentity method internally uses app.UseCookieAuthentication ...