Building a Production-Ready ASP.NET Core Identity System with MySQL

Authentication is one of the most critical and most commonly misconfigured layers of any web application. Yet in the .NET ecosystem, many developers still build user registration and login flows from scratch — introducing inconsistencies, security gaps, and weeks of avoidable rework. To solve this, I built and open-sourced aspnet-core-2.1-user-registration-login-application : a fully scaffolded, production-ready C# membership system built on ASP.NET Core 2.1 with MySQL as the backend — designed