I wonder if anyone figured out the way to have equivalent of pushEventTo (JavaScript interoperability — Phoenix LiveView v1.2.5) but executed from server side, without the need to go through the client/hook to send events to either parent components.

My use case is that I am building set of components in Surface UI and I am passing them target as a property, and the target is either being one of the parent componets or or nil in case of LiveViews that I want to notify when internal state of the component changes.

This is perfectly doable and works really well when the events are dispatched from the client-side, either with phx-target attribute or with pushEventTo/pushEvent when used from hook, but sometimes I’d like to process the event before sending it in some way in the component.

I can currently “solve” this by pushing the event back to the custom Hook I have on my component, and then dispatching it to destination with pushEventTo/pushEvent but this is less than ideal as there’s an extra round trip from browser to the component with the original event, then I pre-process the event in the component, and send it back to the Hook to be dispatched to the target.

I could also “solve” it by using send_update and send with combination of handle_info, handle_event and update functions depending on how the same event gets sent to the parent entity. But this is kinda ugly and redundant and entirely breaks my clean idea of passing down target to child components.

Any ideas if server-side pushEvent / pushEventTo is possible?