Mastering ASP.NET Web API

Generating JWTs

The first step is to generate JSON web tokens in the ASP.NET Core Web API project. For this, let's create a web API Controller--AuthController.

In this AuthController, we will use CredentialsModel containing a username and password to check against AppUsers. If the users exist, then we generate a JWT token that is passed as a response.

We will use the Entity Framework Core In-Memory provider to generate database context and tables and seed data to it. Refer to Chapter 9, Integration with Database, on working with different databases using EF 6, EF Core, and Dapper ORMs.

The AuthController code will use PersonalBudgetContext, which is the EF Core database context, and IConfigurationRoot, which reads the appsettings.json file ...