I set out to announce two components I wrote for displaying Bluesky likes and ended up ranting about the pain of building accessible, localizable web components in 2025. The components are still here, though — lucky you?

Lea Verou

Lea Verou shares her experience building two web components for displaying Bluesky likes and likers, highlighting the challenges of creating accessible and localizable components. She praises the openness of Bluesky's API compared to other social platforms, discusses API design principles for web components, and details the complexities involved in proper accessibility implementation and internationalization. The article demonstrates how seemingly simple components can become complex when considering proper keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and multi-language functionality.

Bluesky Likes Web Components • Lea Verou

Two Components for displaying Bluesky likes