JWT Authorization in ASP.NET Core API
JWT (JSON web token) has become more and more popular in web development. It is an open standard which allows transmitting data between parties as a JSON object in a secure and compact way. The data transmitting using JWT between parties are digitally signed so that it can be easily verified and trusted. In this article, we will learn how to setup JWT with ASP.NET core web application. We can create an application using Visual Studio or using CLI (Command Line Interface). dotnet new webapi -n JWTAuthentication Above command will create an ASP.NET Web API project with the name "JWTAuthentication" in the current folder. The first step is to configure JWT based authentication in our project. To do this, we need to register a JWT authentication schema by using "AddAuthentication" method and specifying JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme. Here, we configure the authentication schema with JWT bearer o...