BriqBookings

Built the embeddable booking widget for BriqBookings, a property booking platform based in Utrecht, taking it from prototype to production.

The problem

The booking flow needed to live on the property owner’s own website, not on BriqBookings’. Sending a visitor elsewhere to complete a booking loses some of them at the handover, and it takes the transaction away from the brand they arrived to deal with.

Constraints

An embedded widget runs inside a page you do not control and cannot test in advance. The host site brings its own CSS — global resets, aggressive selectors, framework styles — and its own JavaScript, any of which can break a widget that assumes a clean document. The widget has to render identically on a hand-written HTML page and inside someone’s WordPress theme.

What I built

The widget as a sandboxed micro-frontend: isolated from the host page so that neither side’s styles or scripts reach the other. That isolation is the entire architectural decision — everything else follows from refusing to share a global namespace with an unknown page.

Built in Vue and plain JavaScript, kept small enough to drop into a third-party site without becoming the heaviest thing on it.

Outcome

Property owners could offer booking inline on their own sites, and visitors completed a booking without ever leaving the page they arrived on.

For a booking system approached from the opposite direction — owned end to end rather than embedded — see the Artis ticketing platform.