How to manage session state with live view

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@daveboo

I should just use a normal Phoenix page

Yes. If I understood correctly, LiveView can’t update the :user_id in the session and the LV session is distinct in each browser’s tab.

And two tabs in the same browser won’t sync with each other. Each LiveView session is distinct.

Phoenix LiveView is now... live!

So there are a couple important differences but some of the concerns are indeed shared. One of the major differences is that LiveView is not trying to reinvent the wheel on the UI side of things. LiveView is not “UI running on the server”, it is not about accessing the DOM from the server, nor it requires a special client side notation. In LiveView, the server simply emits HTML and the LiveView state is not intrinsically tied to the UI in anyway. This is an oversimplification but you can cons…