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Formatted Translations We take the listing of each booking request and fetch the city and country from the listing service and check to see if that destination was in our curated set of formatted destinations loaded into our i18n service. We then take the best fitting artwork and embed the localized destination text on it […]
Incrementally modernizing our frontend infrastructure to roll out the latest React features without downgrades Airbnb’s frontend recently reached a major milestone: all of our web surfaces have been upgraded from React 16 to React 18, the current major version of React¹. This was a big project for a product with many surfaces, including Guest and […]
To better understand the accessibility challenge, let us explore how browser zoom functionality works. You may already be familiar with this feature, using keyboard shortcuts like Command / Ctrl + or Command / Ctrl — to scale all content within a window. When you increase the zoom level beyond 100%, the viewport’s height and width […]
Take SectionHeader as an example. This UI component is used to communicate the structure on the page and group content together. We mark this component to be an accessibility heading in the component code so it is accessible in all screens that contain this component. We invested in automated accessibility testing and linting to run […]