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The Datasync Community Toolkit - Day 5: Real-time updates

10 minute read

This article is the fifth in a series of articles about the [Datasync Community Toolkit][toolkit], which is a set of open source libraries for building client-server applications where the application data is available offline. The Datasync Community Toolkit allows you to connect to any database, use any authentication, and provides robust authorization rules. You implement each side of the app...

The Datasync Community Toolkit - Day 4: Access control

7 minute read

This article is the fourth in a series of articles about the Datasync Community Toolkit, which is a set of open source libraries for building client-server applications where the application data is available offline. The Datasync Community Toolkit allows you to connect to any database, use any authentication, and provides robust authorization rules. You implement each side of the application (...

The Datasync Community Toolkit - Day 3: Custom repositories

10 minute read

This article is the third in a series of articles about the Datasync Community Toolkit, which is a set of open source libraries for building client-server applications where the application data is available offline. The Datasync Community Toolkit allows you to connect to any database, use any authentication, and provides robust authorization rules. You implement each side of the application (c...

The Datasync Community Toolkit - Day 2: The standard repositories

8 minute read

This article is the second in a series of articles about the Datasync Community Toolkit, which is a set of open source libraries for building client-server applications where the application data is available offline. The Datasync Community Toolkit allows you to connect to any database, use any authentication, and provides robust authorization rules. You implement each side of the application...

Introducing the Datasync Community Toolkit - Day 1: The basic service

15 minute read

This article is the first in a series of articles about the Datasync Community Toolkit, which is a set of open source libraries for building client-server applications where the application data is available offline. Unlike, for example, Firebase or AWS AppSync (which are two competitors in this space), the Datasync Community Toolkit allows you to connect to any database, use any authenticatio...

Customizing Keycloak with Aspire - Part 3

6 minute read

This is the last article in a trio of articles about incorporating Keycloak into .NET Aspire applications. Thus far, I’ve covered the basics and some common customizations. This part covers what you need to do if you want to store the identity information within a PostgreSQL database. I’ve chosen PostgreSQL for this because it seems to be the database of choice for Aspire when you want to ru...

Customizing Keycloak with Aspire - Part 2

4 minute read

In my last article, I introduced the Keycloak identity service and showed how the development version can be easily integrated into a project. Development services get you started quickly and allow you to defer the details until later on. At some point, however, you need to take control of your service and start working towards production. There are a number of things that the development ve...

Integrating Keycloak with Aspire - Part 1

8 minute read

In my series on ASP.NET Identity, I mentioned (several times) that you should be using Keycloak, Auth0, Corbado, or another identity service instead of rolling your own. That’s all good, but I left it up to you to figure out exactly how to do that. I thought it would be a good idea to configure an Aspire project from the beginning and show how authentication and authorization with a service w...

ASP.NET Identity deep dive - Part 6 (Social logins)

11 minute read

This article is one of a number of articles I will write over the coming month and will go into depth about the ASP.NET Identity system. My outline thus far: Project setup. Account registration. Signing in and out with a username and password. Password reset. Email confirmations. Social logins. Now that I have the basic flows sorted out (which includes username/password with re...

ASP.NET Identity deep dive - Part 5 (Sending email)

12 minute read

This article is one of a number of articles I will write over the coming month and will go into depth about the ASP.NET Identity system. My outline thus far: Project setup. Account registration. Signing in and out with a username and password. Password reset. Email confirmations. Social logins. Today is the final spot for the basic flows. Up to this point, I’ve been logging li...