How do I actually validate that it’s a particular user logged in | Convex Community | Page 1

sturdy mango Dec 2, 2023, 5:21 PM

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So I need to validate that It’s a user logged in am using clerk for authentication should I always use the identity? Ctx.auth.getUserIdentity but since I have a table in the dB storing every user Info I still don’t understand the process very well cause u would like to use the Id from the table not the one from clerk
Any tips would be considered helpful thank you

weary jasper Dec 2, 2023, 6:05 PM

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That auth function gives you info from clerk, and you can associate it with the user by tokenIdentifier or another. Check out docs.convex.dev under authentication

weary jasper Dec 3, 2023, 8:19 PM

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https://stack.convex.dev/wrappers-as-middleware-authentication as a pattern for https://docs.convex.dev/auth/functions-auth
and https://docs.convex.dev/auth/database-auth

Authentication: Wrappers as “Middleware”

Using wrapper functions like withUser can help you organize your code into middleware-like blocks that you can compose to keep your function logic con...

Auth in Functions | Convex Developer Hub

Within a Convex function, you can access information

Storing Users in the Convex Database | Convex Developer Hub

You might want to have a centralized place that stores information about the

#How do I actually validate that it’s a particular user logged in