Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Implementing token-based authentication

In this section, we will see how to perform token-based authentication using ASP.NET Core. Going into more detail, we will dig into the development and testing of the token-based authentication and learn how to store user data in a database using the default identity provider of ASP.NET Core.

Furthermore, we will implement the authentication as part of the catalog service solution. It is essential to note that, in real-world applications, the authentication and the whole identity process have a dedicated service with a separate data store.

For demo purposes, we are going to implement the authentication part inside the catalog service. Please consider keeping the identity part of your application in ...