Duende Packages

[Bram1903]

Hello,

I had a quick question. You added quite a few Duende packages to the project. Still, I don't see any actual place where you are using these packages, besides in the CircuitHandlerService on line 21 where you use state.User.IsAuthenticated().

How necessary is it to be able to use this method, because it adds many packages to the project, which is in my opinion a bit of a overhead?

When deleting all of these packages it only throws an error at line 21 of the CircuitHandlerService.

Kind regards,
Bram

[neozhu]

Hi Bram,
If you choose not to use the Duende packages, you can use the "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.*" package instead. The UserManager and RoleManager classes rely on this library.

By using "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.*," you will be able to achieve similar functionality without the need for the additional Duende packages.

you can try out it

[Bram1903]

Well, that's the thing. They don't seem to be used. When I remove all the Duende packages and remove the state.User.IsAuthenticated() the whole application still works completely fine.

[neozhu]

I think we should remove the Duende package because it is not entirely free. I will take the time to replace it with Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.* at some point.

[Bram1903]

Well, as follow up I was going to recommend removing it because of the pricing they recently introduced, but you beat me to it ;-)