Observed arrival · 2026-09-28
A server-counted clap button for any page
Appreciate Button is an open-source, self-hostable widget for adding clap, applause, or like buttons to websites.
- For
- Blog and site owners adding page-level reactions
- Worth noticing
- Counts use origin plus path, ignoring query strings and fragments; the visitor cap is enforced server-side.
Field notes
The install instructions provide a script tag carrying a public key; the widget infers its server from the script URL and associates counts with the page’s origin and path, ignoring query strings and fragments. Guides name plain HTML, WordPress, Ghost, Hugo, Jekyll/GitHub Pages, Eleventy, Astro, and Next.js/React, with CSS variables for sizing and color. The homepage says its demo is switched off because this page is not connected to an instance, so live behavior is not observable here.
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