So, I am starting a new phoenix project, and of course I’m going to implement it all using live views. So I have one question: does phx_gen_auth work well with live views? I know that the generated code does generate only dead views, and I don’t care too much about that, I will probably replace them with live views in the future.
It looks like there is actually a right way to put phx_gen_auth and live views together, but I couldn’t find it on the docs and neither found any tutorial explaining that specifically. Do I have to do something else on my live views? Besides manually setting the user to the socket assigns, and authorization, which I already noticed I have to.
Alright, I actually think I discovered, the live_socket_id key on session is used by LiveView under the hood to identify connections, so if the value changes and the connection gets down, it will fail reconnecting cause the session is not the same anymore. So no extra work needed here, only the work I already expected with the assigns and authorization.
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For posterity, the accepted answer (the youtube video) does not actually:
Instead it uses the autogenerated HTML and controllers from phx_gen_auth and shows how to integrate that with a LiveView page. It does not solve the problem of having, e.g. registration form in a live view.
I briefly mentioned my own approach to a similar problem here: Phx_gen_auth using live view ONLY
If anyone wants more details on it, let me know.
That is nice thanks. But I see in the video he’s doing an additional query to fetch the user with the token, but fetch_current_user already does that query, so i wonder how to assign the existing fetched user to the LiveView socket (it is already attached to the conn)
