Auth0 get profile of other user client side

Question

To learn some new technologies, I am building a small chat application that allows users to send messages to each other. I have set up my app with auth0 for client authentication and user management. My chat messages include the sub of a user as the unique author_id .

Now, for my use case, I would like everyone who has received a message to pull up a small user profile card for the message author. This means querying the user management system with the author_id to retrieve the user profile.

I have found the get users by id endpoint which seems to fit my needs. The problem here is that this API requires a management API token, which will not be available on the client side.

Should I set up a pass-through API which authorizes users based on their app JWT token, and then requests the user profile from the auth0 API with the management token? Or should I be looking at a different approach (the fact that this API requires a management token seems to suggest so)?

Answer 1

Due to the rate limit of the management API it is considered better practice to use an external database to save and retreive user data.