Auth0 Custom Database

markd · February 28, 2019, 7:22pm

Hi @cvasquez0100. This may be stretching my skills a bit (not an expert on SPAs & Vue) but to me it sounds like you want the following model, which should work fine:

on new user registration, use the Auth0 user.user_id attribute as a primary key in your DB,
on login, use a rule that queries your DB using user.user_id

I’d also consider creating your own unique identifier. user_id should work fine, but it is an Auth0 specific field. A possibly more portable option would be your own UUID. I have a rule below that adds a UUID to a user’s profile. It could probably be smarter but may be helpful if you want to go this route.

github.com

dmark/auth0-cli-utilities/blob/master/rules/add-uuid-to-app-metadata.js

function (user, context, callback) {
  // Generates a version 4 random UUID. Namespace UUIDs do not appear
  // to be an option in Auth0 at this time.
  const { v4: uuidv4 } = require('uuid');

  user.app_metadata = user.app_metadata || {};
  user.app_metadata.uuid = user.app_metadata.uuid || uuid();
  
  auth0.users.updateAppMetadata(user.user_id, user.app_metadata)
    .then(function(){
    callback(null, user, context);
  })
    .catch(function(err){
    callback(err);
  });
}