How to authenticate users by an separate API?

Question

I have an ASP.NET Core MVC project where users should be authenticated / authorized to gain access to their profiles. There will be a login view.

The users database resides on a separate server.

Can the ASP.NET Core MVC project call a separate API to perform the authentication / authorization instead of letting ASP.NET Core MVC directly access the users database?

How does the API do the authentication and return a result?

I would appreciate your guidance. Maybe a link to an example?

Answer 1

How does the API do the authentication and return a result?

You can google and search JWT authentication in Asp.net Core application. It will show how to create JWT Token.

Besides, these are some good answers you can refer to: JWT Validation on separate web Api and calling the API method using HttpClient