Hi, I use express-openid-connect to have Single Sign On for my application. When a user logs in, I want to update the user entry in my application’s database with the data received from the identity provider. It looks like afterCallback is the best place for this, as it’s only called once after log…

Hi @sr258 , Welcome to the Auth0 Community. You are correct that from afterCallback you’ll need to decode the id token to view it’s claims. You can see an example of this using the jose package in our documentation that I’ve linked below. auth0/express-openid-connect/blob/master/EXAMPLES.m…

Express-openid-connext: Intended way to get user data on login

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