Send an event to a Channel from outside Phoenix

So this one was non-obvious to me.

In the following example, any module on any process can call TopicChannel.send_to_channel/1and that will be handled by the handle_info call below and sent to the socket.

defmodule MyAppWeb.TopicChannel do
  use Phoenix.Channel

  def send_to_channel(data) do
    Phoenix.PubSub.broadcast(
      MyApp.PubSub, 
      "topic:subtopic",
      %{type: "action", payload: %{data: data}
    )
  end

  def join("topic:subtopic", message, socket) do
    {:ok, socket}
  end
  
  def handle_info(%{type: "action"}=info, socket) do
    push socket, "action", info

    {:noreply, socket}
  end
end