aEmoji

convert all emoji to background sprite icon. Regardless of the current system's emoji style or is not support emoji, aEmoji will convert them to Apple style.

like https://github.com/node-modules/emoji, but it is updated to the latest full emoji list, v13.1, and accessible, with providing a useful description in aria-label.

Size

each emoji icon is 18x18 px, but raw data is 36x36 px for hdpi support.

Demo

demo

in Windows 10. System's 'Segoe UI emoji' in the textarea. And aEmoji sprite image above.

Usage

Browser

<script src="dist/main.js"></script>

aEmoji.unifiedToHTML('❤');
// <span class="emoji emoji2764" aria-label="red heart" role="img"></span>

webpack

import unifiedToHTML, { emojiMap, getEmojiReg } from 'aemoji';

In css, we use emoji.png as the background image.

Now, The problem is that the path of emoji.png cannot be changed. So we provide a way to modify the url of emoji.png at runtime. Before you import aemoji, set global __aemoji_url__ as the emoji.png real path in your webpack project.

aemoji-path.js

import emojiPath from "aemoji/dist/emoji.png";
window.__aemoji_url__ = emojiPath;

App.js

import './aemoji-path.js';
import { emojiMap, getEmojiReg } from "aemoji";

Here is an example within create-react-app.

Use by cloning

API

unifiedToHTML(text)

convert emoji texts to <span> element which show emoji by background-image.

getEmojiReg()

return a RegExp object, String.prototype.replace() method may need it.

emojiMap

text.replace(getEmojiReg(), function (_, m) {
    const [className, ariaLabel] = emojiMap[m];
    return `<span class="emoji emoji${className}" aria-label="${ariaLabel}" role="img"></span>`;
});

You could use getEmojiReg() and emojiMap to convert text by yourself.