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+import jwt
+import firebase_admin
+from firebase_admin import credentials, auth
+
+cred = credentials.Certificate('servii.json')
+firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)
+
+
+'''
+TODO
+Write a function that launches upon app's startup, it does check in the firestore for any already running servers.
+Fetches the PID's.
+Stops all the current processes,
+Tell the database they have now stopped running.
+Also ensure the program can add an additional argument to avoid this checking for scalability.
+'''
+
+def get_user_from_id(user_id):
+    return auth.get_user(user_id)
+
+
+def verify_jwt_token(token):
+    try:
+        decoded_token = jwt.decode(token, options={"verify_signature": False})
+        user_id = decoded_token.get('sub')
+        return True, user_id
+    except jwt.ExpiredSignatureError:
+        return False, None
+    except jwt.InvalidTokenError:
+        return False, None