Dynamically render Surface components

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Is there a nice way to dynamically render a Surface component? I actually don’t even really figure out a non-nice way atm.

I current have a main Page which contains the layout and I want to dynamically render content which would be components.

defmodule AppWeb do
  use Surface.LiveView

  data section, :string, default: "home"

  def render(assigns) do
    ~H"""
    <div>
      <header><h1>header</h1></header>
      <main>
        <!-- Is it possible to render a component based on the `section` data attribute here? -->
      </main>
    </div>
    """
  end

  def handle_params(%{"section" => section}, _, socket} do
    # Do some validation here to ensure `section` section is valid

    {:noreply, assign(:section, section)}
  end
end

Is there a better way of dong this? My first attempt involved having a Layout component with a slot, then each section is its own LiveView, but that felt a little heavy-handed. Each section is rich enough that I want them to be their own components, but not heavy enough that they warrant loading a new LiveView each time.

I feel like I’m missing something really obvious, but my focus is being pulled in all different directions in the past couple of weeks.

Thanks!