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Clickvote sends vote data to your own system through two mechanisms: API calls or Kafka topics. You embed its Like, Upvote, or Review components in a React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte app, and once a user interacts, Clickvote forwards that event to your backend in whichever format you configure. This fits teams that already have an API endpoint or a Kafka pipeline and want voting data to flow into existing infrastructure rather than live only inside Clickvote.

The two integration paths

Clickvote's own description of the data flow is short but specific: "Once we receive your likes, we send the Information to your System as you want it: API calls or listening to Kafka topics."

Both paths keep your system as the destination — Clickvote handles the collection and forwarding, not the final storage decision.

Embedding the component first

Integration starts on the front end. The site shows a React example using three imports from @clickvote/react:

import { ClickVoteProvider } from '@clickvote/react';
import { ClickVoteComponent } from '@clickvote/react';
import { LikeStyle } from '@clickvote/react';

export const LikeExample = () => {
  return (
    <ClickVoteProvider>
      <ClickVoteComponent id={CONTEXT} voteTo={ID}>
        {(props) => <LikeStyle {...props} />}
      </ClickVoteComponent>
    </ClickVoteProvider>
  );
};

The inputs that matter here are id (the context being voted on) and voteTo (the target of the vote). The provider wraps the component, and the render-prop pattern lets you swap in a different style component. The same component set is offered for Vue, Angular, and Svelte, so the integration shape is consistent across frameworks.

What you get on the Clickvote side

• Monitoring and testing — the site lists the ability to "monitor and test what your members like" and to "look at the time-series of your likes," which helps you see where engagement is concentrated.
• Scale — Clickvote states it "can handle and scale your system to match your traffic" and can handle an unlimited amount of likes. Treat this as a vendor claim about capacity rather than a benchmark.
• Open source — the source code is public, and the project describes a community of 3,000+ developers. This matters for integration because you can inspect how events are emitted before wiring them into production.

Self-hosted vs. cloud, and why it affects integration

The site presents two deployment options, and your choice changes where the forwarding logic runs:

• Self-hosted — "Run locally with docker-compose." You control the environment, which is useful if your API endpoint or Kafka broker sits inside a private network.
• Cloud — "Use our free managed service." Faster to start, but your endpoint or topic must be reachable from Clickvote's infrastructure.

If your system is internal-only, self-hosting avoids exposing an endpoint publicly. If you just want to test the API-call path, the managed service is the shorter route. The site labels the managed service "free," but no pricing page details were available in the provided material, so confirm current terms on the pricing page before committing.

A practical integration sequence

1. Decide the destination: an HTTP endpoint you own, or a Kafka topic.
2. Embed the component in your front end with the correct id and voteTo values for each voting context.
3. Configure Clickvote to forward events to that destination.
4. Verify by casting a test vote and confirming the event arrives — check your API logs or consume from the Kafka topic.
5. Use Clickvote's monitoring view to confirm the vote was recorded on its side as well.

The most common failure point is step 4: a vote registers in the UI but never reaches your system because the endpoint is unreachable or the topic name is wrong. Testing the destination independently before connecting Clickvote isolates that quickly.

When this integration model fits

Choose Clickvote's forwarding approach if you want vote data to land in infrastructure you already operate and you're comfortable configuring either an HTTP endpoint or a Kafka consumer. If you'd rather not run any receiving service, the API-call path still requires an endpoint — so a serverless function or a small webhook handler is the minimum you'll need.

Clickvote's site advertises a free managed cloud service and a self-hosted option, but it does not publish a price list. The homepage links to a pricing page, yet no plan tiers, rates, or payment details appear in the available page content. So the practical answer is: you can start on the free cloud tier or run it yourself with docker-compose, and any paid or enterprise pricing has to be confirmed directly with Clickvote.

What the site actually says about cost

Two entry points are described on the homepage:

• Cloud — "Use our free managed service." This is the only explicit price signal on the page.
• Self-Hosted — "Run locally with docker-compose." No cost is stated, because you supply the infrastructure.

A "Pricing" link exists at https://clickvote.dev/pricing, which suggests a structured pricing page is intended. The page content available here does not include its contents, so treat the free cloud tier as the only confirmed offer.

Choosing between cloud and self-hosted

The homepage also notes the project is open-source, with source code and work publicly available and a community of 3,000+ developers. That matters for cost only in the sense that self-hosting is a supported path rather than a workaround.

What you get regardless of plan

The free/managed and self-hosted paths share the same component model. You embed like, upvote, and review components into React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte:

import { ClickVoteProvider } from '@clickvote/react';
import { ClickVoteComponent } from '@clickvote/react';
import { LikeStyle } from '@clickvote/react';

export const LikeExample = () => {
  return (
    <ClickVoteProvider>
      <ClickVoteComponent id={CONTEXT} voteTo={ID}>
        {(props) => <LikeStyle {...props} />}
      </ClickVoteComponent>
    </ClickVoteProvider>
  );
};

The homepage also lists monitoring and time-series views of likes, unlimited like volume, and delivery of vote data into your system via API calls or Kafka topics. None of these are marked as paid-only in the available content.

What to verify before you commit

Because pricing is not published, confirm these points with Clickvote or on the pricing page:

• Whether the free managed service has usage limits (likes per month, contexts, or seats).
• Whether API calls or Kafka delivery are included at every tier.
• Whether there is a paid plan or enterprise option, and what triggers an upgrade.
• What data retention and export look like on the managed service.

If those answers matter to your decision, the self-hosted route removes most of them from the equation — you control the deployment, and the cost becomes your own hosting bill rather than a Clickvote invoice.

Clickvote provides embeddable Like, Upvote, and Review components that you can drop into a React app to add voting and feedback features to any context. The integration path is short: install the @clickvote/react package, wrap your component tree in ClickVoteProvider, and render a ClickVoteComponent with an id (the context) and a voteTo (the target being voted on). You can then style it with a preset like LikeStyle or supply your own render function. This guide covers the setup steps, what each prop does, and where people typically get stuck.

Prerequisites

Before you start, confirm you have:

• A React project (the package is imported as @clickvote/react).
• A Clickvote backend to talk to. The docs describe two options: a self-hosted instance run locally with docker-compose, or the cloud managed service. You need one of these before votes will persist anywhere.
• A decision on how you want Clickvote to send data back to your system. The site states that once likes are received, the information is forwarded to your system either via API calls or by listening to Kafka topics.

Step 1: Install the package

Add the React package to your project:

npm install @clickvote/react

The import path used in the official example is @clickvote/react, so keep that exact scope when importing.

Step 2: Wrap your app in ClickVoteProvider

ClickVoteProvider sets up the context that the voting components rely on. Place it high enough in the tree that every ClickVoteComponent sits inside it.

import { ClickVoteProvider } from '@clickvote/react';

export const App = () => {
  return (
    <ClickVoteProvider>
      {/* your app */}
    </ClickVoteProvider>
  );
};

If you render a ClickVoteComponent outside this provider, it has no context to attach to — that's the most common cause of a component that renders but never registers a vote.

Step 3: Render a ClickVoteComponent

The component takes two props in the official example:

• id — the context the vote belongs to (for example, a page, post, or product identifier).
• voteTo — the ID of the specific target being voted on.

import { ClickVoteProvider, ClickVoteComponent, LikeStyle } from '@clickvote/react';

const CONTEXT = 'my-page';
const ID = 'item-123';

export const LikeExample = () => {
  return (
    <ClickVoteProvider>
      <ClickVoteComponent id={CONTEXT} voteTo={ID}>
        {(props) => <LikeStyle {...props} />}
      </ClickVoteComponent>
    </ClickVoteProvider>
  );
};

Note the render-prop pattern: ClickVoteComponent passes props to a function, and you decide what to render with them. LikeStyle is one of the preset styles you can spread those props into.

Step 4: Choose a style or build your own

The example uses LikeStyle, but the same render-prop slot accepts any component. Because props carries the state and handlers, you can:

• Use a preset (LikeStyle, and the other Like / Upvote / Review styles referenced on the site).
• Write a custom component that consumes props and renders your own markup.

This is also where the framework choice matters: Clickvote ships components for React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte, so the surrounding syntax differs but the id / voteTo concept carries across.

Step 5: Verify it works

After wiring it up:

1. Render the component and confirm it appears in the UI.
2. Cast a vote and check that it registers.
3. Confirm the vote reaches your system through whichever channel you configured (API call or Kafka topic).
4. Use the monitoring view described on the site to look at the time-series of your likes and confirm the event landed.

If the vote shows locally but never arrives in your system, the problem is almost always the backend connection (self-hosted instance not running, or the API/Kafka output not configured) rather than the React code.

What you get beyond the component

Clickvote isn't only the embed. The site highlights:

• Monitoring and testing — see what members like and review the time-series of likes to decide where to focus.
• Scale — the system is described as handling an unlimited amount of likes and scaling to match traffic.
• Output flexibility — forward votes to your system via API calls or Kafka topics.
• Open source — source code is public, with a community of 3,000+ developers contributing.

Common sticking points

Choosing self-hosted vs cloud

The site presents both without stating prices, so treat the choice on operational grounds: self-hosted runs locally with docker-compose and keeps everything in your environment; cloud is described as a managed service you can get started with. If you need to control the infrastructure or already run Docker, start self-hosted. If you want to skip setup, start with the cloud option.

Clickvote offers two deployment paths: a self-hosted option you run locally with docker-compose, and a cloud option described on the site as a free managed service. The right choice depends on whether you want to control the infrastructure yourself or hand operations to Clickvote and start faster.

The two options at a glance

The page presents both as entry points under "Embed Your Components Now," with "Self-Hosted — Run locally with docker-compose" and "Cloud — Use our free managed service."

What Clickvote actually does

Clickvote provides like, upvote, and review components you embed into your app. The page shows support for React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte, and includes a React example:

import { ClickVoteProvider } from '@clickvote/react';
import { ClickVoteComponent } from '@clickvote/react';
import { LikeStyle } from '@clickvote/react';

export const LikeExample = () => {
  return (
    <ClickVoteProvider>
      <ClickVoteComponent id={CONTEXT} voteTo={ID}>
        {(props) => <LikeStyle {...props} />}
      </ClickVoteComponent>
    </ClickVoteProvider>
  );
};

Beyond the UI components, Clickvote handles the vote data: it can scale to unlimited likes, lets you monitor and test what members like through time-series data, and sends information back to your system either via API calls or by listening to Kafka topics. It is open-source, with source code publicly available and a community the page cites as 3,000+ developers.

Choosing between them

Pick self-hosted if you need the vote data and infrastructure to live inside your own environment, or you already run docker-compose-based services and want to keep operational control.

Pick cloud if you want to embed components without managing infrastructure, and a managed service fits your setup. The page calls the cloud option free, but confirm current terms and limits on the pricing page before committing.

A practical middle path: start with the cloud managed service to validate the integration and see how the components behave in your app, then move to self-hosted if data residency or control requirements appear later. Because the component API is the same either way, switching deployment models does not require rewriting your front-end integration.

What to verify before deciding

• Pricing and limits: The page links to a pricing page but does not state figures here. Check it for current cloud terms.
• Data flow: Decide whether you want votes delivered via API calls or Kafka topics, since that shapes both your integration and your infrastructure needs.
• Framework fit: Confirm your framework is among the supported ones (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte) before building around the components.

Clickvote is a component library and backend service for adding like, upvote, and review functionality to any app context. You embed its prebuilt components into a React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte frontend, and it handles the vote storage, counting, and delivery back to your system. It fits teams that want engagement features without building and scaling the voting infrastructure themselves.

What Clickvote actually does

The core idea is that "like," "upvote," and "review" are recurring UI patterns, but the hard part is the backend: storing votes, counting them at scale, and reacting to them. Clickvote splits the problem in two:

• Frontend components you drop into your app, styled and wired to a provider.
• A backend that receives the votes and forwards the information to your system.

The homepage describes it as "Like, Upvote And Review Any Context" with components for React, VueJs, Angular, Svelte, and the web generally.

How integration works

The documented React example shows the shape of the API:

import { ClickVoteProvider } from '@clickvote/react';
import { ClickVoteComponent } from '@clickvote/react';
import { LikeStyle } from '@clickvote/react';

export const LikeExample = () => {
  return (
    <ClickVoteProvider>
      <ClickVoteComponent id={CONTEXT} voteTo={ID}>
        {(props) => <LikeStyle {...props} />}
      </ClickVoteComponent>
    </ClickVoteProvider>
  );
};

The pattern is consistent across frameworks: wrap your app (or the relevant subtree) in a provider, then render a vote component that takes a context identifier and a target ID. The LikeStyle component is one of the available styles; the render-prop form lets you substitute your own UI while keeping the vote logic.

• CONTEXT identifies where the vote lives (for example, a post, a comment thread, a product).
• ID identifies the specific item being voted on.

What you get on the backend side

From the feature list on the site:

The Kafka option matters if you already run an event pipeline and would rather consume votes as a stream than poll an API.

Self-hosted vs. cloud

Clickvote offers two deployment paths, and the choice is mostly about who runs the infrastructure:

• Self-hosted — run locally with docker-compose. Choose this if you need data to stay inside your own environment or want to modify the source.
• Cloud — the site describes a "free managed service" you can get started with. Choose this if you want to skip deployment and just embed components.

The site links to a pricing page, but the input does not include its contents, so check that page directly for current plan limits and terms.

When Clickvote is a good fit

• You want like/upvote/review UI in more than one frontend framework and prefer one consistent backend.
• You need votes to flow into an existing system, especially via Kafka or API.
• You value open source and self-hosting as an option.
• You would rather not build vote counting and scaling yourself.

It is less obviously a fit if you need a highly custom voting model (weighted votes, complex moderation rules) — the documented surface is like, upvote, and review components, and anything beyond that depends on what the open-source code and your own integration layer support.

To evaluate it concretely, start with the React snippet above in a scratch project, point CONTEXT and ID at a test item, and confirm votes arrive in your system through whichever delivery method you chose.