Hooks are secure, self-contained functions that allow you to customize the behavior of Auth0 when executed for selected extensibility points of the Auth0 platform. Auth0 invokes hooks during runtime to execute your custom Node.js code. To learn more, read Extensibility Points.

Whether hooks can be used with connections varies according to extensibility point. Hooks that can be used with connections only work with database and passwordless connections. To learn more, read Database Connections and Passwordless Connections.