Know who is visiting your protected site, right from your functions
From the source: Netlify Blog
On private projects and sites protected with Netlify team login, your Netlify Functions and Edge Functions can now see who is making the request. The signed-in Netlify user is available as context.user, with their user ID, email address, and when their access expires. This function returns the signed-in user's ID, email address, and access expiry as JSON at /whoami, and responds with a 401 when…
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