So let’s say a web application with user authentic...
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ITEnthusiasm
11/26/2022, 3:25 PMSo let’s say a web application with user authentication needs to store certain details like address, phone number, etc. I’m assuming it would be typical to authenticate with SuperTokens and then store the extra user information in the web app’s own database, correct?
If that is the case, what’s the benefit of storing role info in SuperTokens as opposed to using one’s own database?
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rp_st
11/26/2022, 6:01 PMHey @ITEnthusiasm
rp_st
11/26/2022, 6:01 PMThere are two advantages:
rp_st
11/26/2022, 6:01 PM1) it saves you time to write those extra queries
rp_st
11/26/2022, 6:02 PM2) it integrates well with our user roles claim which adds role information in the session automatically. You can modify the user roles recipe to read from your db and then this would work too, but that’s an extra customisation
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ITEnthusiasm
11/28/2022, 2:02 PMGotcha! Thanks for the info!
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