ColinEberhardt / applause-button

A zero-configuration medium-style button for adding applause / claps / kudos to web pages and blog posts
http://applause-button.com/
MIT License
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feat: Accessible clap button and other improvements #106

Closed chriswilty closed 2 months ago

chriswilty commented 2 months ago

Now using a native html <button> for instant a11y improvements, including keyboard focusability and semantics.

Other improvements:

I must admit, this one is non-trivial to review as there are plenty of changes, including to the stylesheet, which I tried to simplify a little. In a subsequent PR I will simplify this further by junking SASS in favour of pure CSS.

I suggest you check it out, run it locally using yarn test:serve then view it / click it a bit to see how it behaves. Note you'll need Node >= 18.17 to run it.

chriswilty commented 2 months ago

Am I right in thinking attributeChangedCallback is no longer used?

As my initial response was buried in another comment: attributeChangedCallback is a built-in method of custom elements, invoked whenever an attribute is, uh, changed. Our custom element listens for the color change, so this callback is indeed used - see also observedAttributes property.

For the record, I am somewhat confused that this custom element also exposes some properties as a way of accessing and changing state. There seems to be no particular reason for this, but we seem caught between two implementation styles here; color is the only observed attribute that triggers the actual change callback, and the rest are exposed via property setters. Sometimes people prefer properties as those can be any value, not just strings, but here we are only really interested in string values, aside from "multiclap" which is boolean, and that is easily represented as "true". I will add an issue to discuss this, but note if we change the component API then that would be a breaking change.

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