Identity signup & MongoDB user creation question

[parkeragee]

About me

Software Engineer for Campaign Monitor & Founder of Sully Labs (my umbrella entity for all of my side projects)

• My name: Parker Agee
• I've used Netlify: lots

My question in a little more detail

What's the best way to update the user_metadata in Netlify Identity as a response to a identity-signup event?

An identity-signup event only returns the user object and does not include an Identity admin token for updating the user_metadata via GoTrue.

Here's my use-case:

• User signs up for app via Netlify Identity Widget
• identity-signup event fires and my identity-signup.js function runs which creates a user in MongoDB
• Now, I want to add that MongoDB generated _id for the new user document into the Netlify Identity user_metadata, but I have not found an easy way to do that.

Ideally, I would like to handle updating the user_metadata within that identity-signup.js function right after the user is created in MongoDB.

Thoughts?

[philhawksworth]

Answered in Ep2 - coming soon: https://ask.netlify.com/episode/02/

[bristoljon]

Any chance could get a link to the code repo for the demo?

https://identity-example-update-user.netlify.com/

[bristoljon]

Ok I found this but it inexplicably doesn't have an identity-signup.js function? Perhaps this is explained in the video but was trying to avoid having to watch it all!

https://github.com/netlify/identity-update-user-data

The issue I'm running into is that my identity-signup.js lambda never seems to get called. It shows as a function in the Functions tab of the netlify dashboard but no logs are generated

[Bulletninja]

I have the same issue, my identity-signup.js never gets called 🤔 UPDATE: It seems to be working now. I was under the impression that this also worked locally, but seems like it only works in production. Would be great if it also worked locally. That way we could test before deploying anything