On: Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs

[benbristow]

Rails has a templating system for generating emails (standard HTML/ERB files). If you're running an ASP.NET Web API (not MVC) the best way of doing that I've found is via RazorLight which you have to set up manually - https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

For authentication, with Rails the standard is pretty much Devise or Omniauth (or both) - does everything for you. I've never found anything for ASP like Devise which gives you an entire registration/login system with all the required views/models/migrations in a couple commands.

[merb → benbristow]

> I've never found anything for ASP like Devise which gives you an entire registration/login system with all the required views/models/migrations in a couple commands.

??????????????????????????????????????????? You know that this is built-in, right?

https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/security/authenticati... https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/security/authenticati...

also the same choices apply to rails.

[benbristow → merb]

I mentioned Identity in my first comment. I've never found it as simple as Devise though - especially in an API only setting.

With Devise there's a third-party Gem you can use called devise_token_auth which deals with everything automatically.

https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth