Use Auth0 extend for functions not depending of SSS / request pipeline

[hypervillain]

What feature are you missing?
I have some custom code not depending of server-side subscriptions. Having a way to register functions using Auth0 extend without having to create an account anywhere else is a must.

Example use case with Twilio chat :

• users can join groups and each group has a dedicated Twilio chat room
• server-side subscriptions allow you to manage chat onCreate, onUpdate and onDelete
• the same way, you use SSS to add/delete a Gcool user to corresponding chat room
• the real problem comes when you have to request an access token for your user to enter the chat room : entering the room doesn't correspond to any event on Graphcool's backend

The solution right now is to create a custom function somewhere else like in Webtask or something. This is a big tradeoff in terms of code management.

Allowing your users to create functions and giving them a url to request on client-side would pretty much solve this (relatively common) issue.

How could this feature look like in detail? Tradeoffs?

• Click on Functions tab
• create a function outside of SSS / request pipeline
• give back a url created by Auth0 extend

This would even allow users to perform cron jobs in a much easier way before the features comes out!

What do you guys think about that? Extend probably allows you to do that pretty easily 👍

[marktani]

Hey @Thook, thanks a lot for your brilliant write up 🙂 I can't wait for Graphcool webhooks, they will cover so many workflows!

I'm closing this anyway as a duplicate of #354