Hi Auth0 Team, I am very new to Auth0 and I’m having trouble when and how to store information in my own db for the sake of data association. One approach I thought of is, whenever User sends a request in my backend using a access token, I would use a middleware to check if the user exists in the …

Hi @ahmedsadman.211 , Welcome to the Auth0 Community! Creating the user if they don’t exist works fine if you applications allows for it. You can use the user ID to associate data to the user in your backend DB. This ID is provided in the access token as the sub claim. You can add custom claims t…

What is the best approach to associate user information in my backend API?

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What is the best approach to associate user information in my backend API?

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