I’ve been looking at options for getting feedback on my blog posts. While I don’t want to add comments (I’d much rather people email me and have a meaningful conversation), I did want a way to see if posts resonated with others. So like any good developer, I built a service to solve my problem!
Introducing ReactBar#
ReactBar is a dead simple embed service to add reactions to a webpage. Enter a URL at the ReactBar website
, get a <script> embed and paste into your HTML. That’s it!
This is a super earlier release, but I figured I’d share it anyways. Here’s what I’m planning in the future:
- Embeds go to the domain level instead of page level so you don’t need a new embed code for each page
- An admin panel is available to view domain level and page level reaction stats
- You are able to configure which reactions are enabled at a sitewide or page level
- You are able to enable a second step feedback input, so users can leave feedback after reacting
- Light and dark themes
Guiding priciples#
ReactBar is aimed at the small web: independent websites/blogs/etc. With that in mind, ReactBar is being released as free, open-source software. Furthermore, it’s lightweight and will always respect your privacy.
Feedback?#
I’d love any feedback or suggestions! Leave a reaction below, then shoot me an email !
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