No Individual User Accounts auth option in ASP.NET Core Web API template
<p>I am a bit confused as to why there is no Individual User Accounts authentication option in the latest ASP.NET Core Web API template.</p>

<p>Is it still possible to implement individual user accounts the way that the MVC template does or would it not make sense?</p>

<p>Let's say I am creating a stand-alone web API that is going to have all of my business logic and data layer that accesses the database which has the AspNet Identity tables. I plan on making calls to this API w/ an MVC app.</p>

<p>I know one way of doing this is to create an asp.net MVC app w/ individual user accounts auth and simply build the API right within the MVC app using a controllers/api folder. However, I don't want to do it this way because I want the API to be its own standalone project that can be hosted on a completely different server and accessed by multiple applications, not just an MVC app.</p>

<p>Can someone lead me in the right direction on how authentication typically works in this scenario since there is no template?</p>