Hello, I have an angular application with a nodejs backend. I followed the official angular-auth0 tutorial and it worked as expected. I also created an API to secure some backend routes but now I am struggling to extract the user_id from the token passed in the request header from the frontend. I…

The sub claim is the OAuth2 standard claim name , and it contains the subject = user_id, so yes, that’s fine to use, I therefore wouldn’t even consider it a workaround but a proper way.

Extract user_id from token in backend

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konrad.sopala January 4, 2021, 10:15am 3

Thanks for contributing on this one Mathias!

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Extract user_id from token in backend

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