# Live View Session Management **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** phoenix, liveview\ **Created:** [October 19, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/live-view-session-management/43203 "2021-10-19T18:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![andrewb](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/andrewb/32/20567_2.png) [@andrewb](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/andrewb)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/live-view-session-management/43203/2 "2021-10-19T21:35:11Z")
Hi @shortlyportly, I was playing with `live_session` yesterday. I think it depends on what you want to use the session for but if it is to get information based on the session and populate the `socket.assigns` then the new `live_session` now has you covered. You can create a `Module` that gets called using the `on_mount` hook (It works like `Plug`) and you can grab anything you need from the session and add it to the socket before `mount` is called. The main benefit is to reduce the boilerplate code on every `LiveView`. Yesterday I moved the `assign(socket, :current_user, user)` to and `on_mount` `Module` and it works great. There is an example in the docs [here](https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/security-model.html#authentication-vs-authorization) Andrew --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/live-view-session-management/43203)._