Hey guys; When a user registers I would like to create a record in my own database, so I need to be able distinguish between login and sign up. Perhaps I could change the post login callback URL. For example I could add the following to the allowed callback URLS https://localhost:3000/callback , h…

In case you’re using database connection (and not federated / social logins): Instead of putting the logic in a Rule (which gets executed upon user authentication), you could instead use a post-user registration hook, which is only called upon signup and which you can use to call your backend. …

Thanks @mathiasconradt for the prompt and detailed response. Using the post-registration hook seems like a good way to go in my case… My one thought though was given this is asynchronous I wouldn’t know when the new record in my own database had been created. If I was to query the new database rec…

Yes, you are right about that. In that case, if you need a confirmed response back synchronously, you might be better off with the rule, just remember that a rule is trigger on authentication, not on signup. That means, if you create a user in other ways (i.e. via Management API) than the user hims…

Alright, sounds good. I’ll go with the rule then. Just so others can see what I did here it is, works like a charm: function (user, context, callback) { var request = require('request'); if (context.stats.loginsCount === 1) { request({ method: 'POST', url: 'https://yourap…

Interesting…I think it is a scoping issue (which is confusing) but when I remove the callbacks from the request callback and just have it always callback things succeed. So perhaps when I’m calling from inside my request callback the user and context are not scoped and so an erroneous values are pa…

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