Take advantage of improved identity management in ASP.NET Core to implement identity-based authentication for minimal APIs quickly, easily, and with less code.

How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

I'm not understanding something(big surprise) in the way ASP.NET does forms authentication.Do I have to check the state of Page.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated on each page myself or is the forms ...