Best way to run code after user logs in/out
Looking for the best way to run code after a user logs in/out of the app.
I need all the users info from the DB obj, the same info that would be returned with authClient.useSession() on a page
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checkout hooks
https://www.better-auth.com/docs/concepts/hooks
Hooks | Better Auth
Better Auth Hooks let you customize BetterAuth's behavior
Is the user object returned in the context anywhere?
You can run this:
Ok cool I’ll try that, where is that in the docs? I must have missed its mention :LUL:
No it's not your fault, it's in another part of the docs which you wouldn't had thought to look in 😅
https://www.better-auth.com/docs/concepts/plugins#getsessionfromctx
There are a lot of functions that utilize
ctx and give you something in return, so these functions are usually documented where it would most likely be used at, hard to document the same functions everywhere if you understand mePlugins | Better Auth
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Ah gotcha alright, thanks again I’ll try it out and let you know if I run into problems
It does indeed work.
iThough i am now running into the question of how to add data to a user obj? Like say a user signs up with discord social auth and we add field
A to the object, now we are working on a new feature and also need to set a field B which defaults with some info from the sovial provider (discord in this case). If i just add it to the mapProfileToUser config in the socialProviders confirg it does not work, since i am assuming that code only works when a new user is created, but I want to make sure this info is set whenever the user signs in next. Does that make any sense? lolI think that should had worked, right? @bekacru
If someone signs back in to your app using Discord oauth, it should use mapProfileToUser again
this hasn't been possible before but already opend a PR. It'll be merged later today
https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/pull/2148
Epic
When will this go to stable?
this week
Awesome