Auth0 will be maintaining my apps users but I need an identifier to go in the application database to connect user date to. I wanted to use user_id but couldn’t figure out how to get it. email is available but I’m wondering if that could change if the user is able to change the email associated wit…

It’s the sub claim in the JWT token, or if you use the SPA JS SDK, it’s the sub attribute of the user object you received.

Field to use for user id

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