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Doh, Didn’t read the part where it said i have to explicitly make it target itself.
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveComponent.html#module-targeting-component-events
Stateful components can also implement the handle_event/3 callback that works exactly the same as in LiveView. For a client event to reach a component, the tag must be annotated with a phx-target. If you want to send the event to yourself, you can simply use the @myself assign, which is an internal unique reference to the component instance:
