react-apple-emojis

Apple emojis for React as images.

The package is heavy because it has a full list of emojis included in it. If you want it to be lighter you can use your own list and use tree-shaking to reduce your bundle size.

Installation

npm install --save react-apple-emojis or yarn add react-apple-emojis

Usage

import { EmojiProvider, Emoji } from 'react-apple-emojis'
import emojiData from 'react-apple-emojis/lib/data.json'

function App() {
  return (
    <EmojiProvider data={emojiData}>
      <Emoji name="red-heart" />
      <Emoji name="smiling-face-with-hearts" width={16} />
    </EmojiProvider>
  )
}

The Emoji component renders to an img tag. So pass any prop you would normaly pass to an img.

The complete list of names can be found on Emojipedia. Just click on an emoji and look at the browser's URL to find its name.

Relies on Emojipedia's CDN (AWS S3), usage on heavy trafic pages is disadvised. To use your own CDN:

// First, create your own script to upload each image into a bucket
// scripts/upload-emojis.js
const fs = require('fs')
const path = require('path')

const data = fs.readFileSync('../node_modules/react-apple-emojis/lib/data.json', 'utf-8')
const outputLocation = path.join(__dirname, '../src/emoji-data.json')

async function uploadEmojisToBucket() {
  const outputData = {}

  for (const [name, url] of Object.entries(JSON.parse(data))) {
    const newUrl = await uploadImageToBucket(name, url)

    outputData[name] = newUrl
  }

  fs.writeFileSync(outputLocation, JSON.stringify(outputData, null, 2), 'utf-8')

  console.log('Emoji data available at', outputLocation)
}

uploadEmojisToBucket()

// Then, use your newly acquired data JSON file to be used thourough your app
// src/App.js
import { EmojiProvider, Emoji } from 'react-apple-emojis'
import emojiData from './emoji-data.json'

function App() {
  return (
    <EmojiProvider data={emojiData}>
      <Emoji name="red-heart" />
      <Emoji name="smiling-face-with-hearts" width={16} />
    </EmojiProvider>
  )
}

Contributing

Yes, thank you.

License

MIT