Netlify Identity - Refresh role on client side

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I think your best bet is to use react-netlify-identity-gotrue by our community hero @jonsully

More specifically identity.refreshUser()

He wrote about this exact thing in this post:

VueJS app out of sync after role updated externally via Netlify functions

Read through your library linked above. Very nice. Thank ya was a big, but good, project! Lol at my comment that was orphaned somewhere. Sitting between blank lines like a sad, sad little code block (the “NOTE: The one trick at play”). Am i correct that what you’re doing to refresh the user’s data for the app is: calling GoTrue’s user.update() without passing any attributes - an empty POST body Almost! The update method actually uses a PUT not a POST — in traditional …