ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

Setting up the .NET Core Identity

In Chapter 1, Getting Ready, when we created our .NET Core project, we made the choice to go with an empty project featuring no authentication. That was because we didn't want Visual Studio to install the ASP.NET Core Identity within our application's startup files right from the start. However, now that we'll use it, we need to manually perform the required setup steps.