Using ASP.NET Core Identity to store user information in a local database

If Azure AD B2C is not an option for you, you can use ASP.NET Core Identity, which .NET offers for storing users in a local database. We’ll use this as an alternative way to run the solution without the need to configure Azure AD B2C.

With ASP .NET Core Blazor, a template is available to create the core code needed to create an application that allows users to register, store user information in a database, and manage users. Use this template with the -au Individual option:

dotnet new blazor -au Individual -int Auto -o Codebreaker.ApiGateway.Identities

This creates two projects: Codebreaker.ApiGateway.Identities and Codebreaker.ApiGateway.Identities.Client. The second project is a library that contains Razor components that can be run on the client with interactive WebAssembly rendering, as well as interactive server rendering. This library was referenced in the first project, which hosts the...