You want the minimal information you need on the session for fetching all the information you need for the LV.
E.g. you need the user, then put the user_id into the session, so you can load the full user based on the id.
LostKobrakai
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silverdr
Right, that part is clear. What bakes my noodles here is the sentence from the docs: “… the Plug.Conn assigns will be available for reference via assign_new/3, allowing assigns to be shared…”. How is that done?
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LostKobrakai
If you’re in the static render and you do assign_new(socket, :user, fn -> fetch_user() end) then phoenix will look at conn.assigns.user first and copy that value before falling back to executing the anonymous function.
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silverdr
Gosh! Now I see that the example actually makes sense in the context, TNX (yet another time)!
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josevalim
Creator of Elixir
silverdr
Heh - I put down a TODO yesterday about it! But since you so nicely invited… 
Yet, it seems the current master branch has this part already updated (and better). I still slightly modified it though, addressing even more explicitly the part that had me baffled yesterday. PR is out for grabs.
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