I know I can have heex attributes like phx-click="eventid" in the markup and then
def handle_event("eventid", _, socket), do: [...]
But how does one send that event without actually interacting? There are some examples in the guides like:
yet they seem to cover different cases:
- handle custom client-side JavaScript when an element is added, updated, or removed by the server
- Triggering
phx-form events with JavaScript
but what I need is best described as “triggering arbitrary event that can be handled with handle_event/3 with JavaScript”. I found something similar here:
yet it’s been some time and many Phoenix changes since that fine piece was written.
How would you approach this task today?
