My apologies for the terrible elixir syntax highlighting in this post. I keep putting off finding a good way to do this on Blogger.
import Phoenix.Socket, only: [assign: 2, assign: 3]Not that importing is useless but single-use imports drive me a bit nuts. Even just using it a few times. It's nice to be able to jump to some code and know exactly where everything is coming from without having to jump around the file.
I don't avoid import but I generally I strive to import one module where I'm going to be using many functions. I rarely bother with `only` unless it's absolutely necessary due to conflicts otherwise specifying `only` is a good indication I don't even need to import.
import Phoenix.Component, only: [assign: 2, assign: 3]
Importing from Socket should work, but you're right, the code in the post wouldn't work. They use to be in LiveView but got moved to Component.