Resolving authentication state in procedural logic

Incorporating authentication and authorization into the procedural logic of your application is often necessary. Simply manipulating markup visibility may not suffice in these scenarios; you need to resolve the current authentication state to make informed decisions within your code. That’s where a cascading AuthenticationState class comes in. The AuthenticationState class is a built-in Blazor feature that provides information about the user’s authentication status and claims.

Let’s add a button that redirects internal employees to different areas of a ticketing system based on their roles.

Getting ready

Before we leverage authentication state in procedural logic, do the following:

• In the server-side project, create a Components/Recipes/Recipe07 directory – this will be your working directory
• Copy the FakePages directory from the Components/Recipes/Recipe07 directory in the GitHub repository...