Pro ASP.NET Core Identity: Under the Hood with Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core 5 Applications: Under the Hood with Authentication and ... in ASP.NET Core 5 and 6 Applications Paperback – 1 February 2021

The lion's share of this books pages is consumed by useless Razor Page implementation code. There is little knowledge here than can not be simply, and cheaply, gleaned from online documentation. There is nothing under the hood about this book - it's all standard Identity stuff with way too much razor code surrounding the actual API details.

I didn't really want to give the book a negative review because I know the author has put an awful lot of effort into writing it, and there is a lot of information in it. But it requires patience and a lot of frustration to get to the point! Being a test-driven developer I find it pretty frustrating to have to write pages and pages of code before I can see the any results - and quite often it doesn't work so I have to go right back to the beginning to figure out what I messed up! It seems to me that the examples are presented back to front and only when you finally get to the end of a chapter and the code actually works do you have the aha moment!

Good enough book. I like it. It made me more confident and comfortable with .net identity

The subjects covered in the chapters were well written however there seems to be many topics not covered for a "Professional " book.What about using well-known/openid-configuration?What about going a silent refresh?What about creating your own ClientStore by extending IdentiyServer4's IClientStore?