figi

Parse emoticons in text and replace by html images... or whatever you need.

Warning: breaking changes with version 1.0.0

With version 1.0.0, figi drop the UMD implementation and node version prior to 4.0 to use the ES6 module definition.
For now, it uses Babel to transpile to ES5.

So, if you use ES5, you should require figi with var figi = require( "figi" ).default;, and, if you use ES6, you should import figi with import figi from "figi";.

Getting Started

From browsers and node.

Install the module with: npm install figi

Simple usage

See documentation for more informations.

var figi = require( "figi" ).default;

figi.catalog = {
    ":)": "smile.png",
    ";)": "wink.png",
    ":D": "lol.png"
};

var str = figi( "I'm happy ;) !" ); // "I'm happy <img src="./wink.png" alt=";)" class="emote" /> !"

Documentation

figi find predefined sequences in strings and returns the strings with <img /> tags for finded sequences.

The first purpose of figi is, of course, to find and replace emoticons by images.

Setup figi

catalog

At least, figi needs a catalog of strings to find and replace in your strings.

By default, the catalog of figi is empty : it search and replace nothing.

To define it globaly, you can pass your catalog to figi.catalog, as in the following example :

figi.catalog = {
    ":)": "smile.png",
    ";)": "wink.png",
    ":D": "lol.png"
};

figi will only use the string keys, the other key types will be ignored. The value of a key should be a string, but you can do whatever you want if you redefine the parser (see below).

classes

By default, figi add the unique emote class on the resulting <img /> tags. You can provide a string or an array of strings to figi.classes.

figi.classes = "smiley little red";

figi.classes = [ "smiley", "little", "red" ];

base path

By default, figi use the ./ base path for emoticon images. You can replace it by passing a string to figi.path.

figi.path = "http://mysite.com/images/emotes/";

replacer

By default, figi replace each key of the catalog by an <img /> tag with an src attribute (the value of the key, prefixed by the path), an alt attribute (the key), and a class attribute (by default, the class emote).

You can change the replacement by anything you want by passing a function to figi.replacer.

This function will receive two arguments : the value and the key, and must return the replaced value of the key, to be substitute in the original string. Inside the replacer function, the this context will be the figi instance, to access the predefined values, as in the following example.

figi.replacer = function( value, key ) {
    return '<i data-icon="' + this.path + value + '" title="' + key + '">' + key + '</i>';
};

use figi

Using globally-setted config values.

Using figi is very simple :

var inputString = "Hi, I love to use emoticon like this :) in my texts. And to replace these by images, I use figi ! ;)";

var parsedString = figi( inputString );

The parsedString var will be :

Hi, I love to use emoticon like this <img src="./smile.png" alt=":)" class="emote" /> in my texts. And to replace these by images, I use figi ! <img src="./wink.png" alt=";)" class="emote" />

Using local config values.

You can also use figi with local config values when you call it, like this :

var inputString = "Hi, I love to use emoticon like this :) in my texts. And to replace these by images, I use figi ! ;)";

var parsedString = figi( inputString, {
    catalog: {
        ":)": "round-smile.png",
        ";)": "round-wink.png"
    },
    classes: "little smiley",
    path: "./img/emotes/"
} );

The parsedString var will be :

Hi, I love to use emoticon like this <img src="./img/emotes/round-smile.png" alt=":)" class="little smiley" /> in my texts. And to replace these by images, I use figi ! <img src="./img/emotes/round-wink.png" alt=";)" class="little smiley" />

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 1.0.0: Drop UMD support, use ES6 module definition (17/01/16)
• 0.1.4: Updating dependencies (12/10/14)
• 0.1.3: Remove support for node 0.8 (31/05/14)
• 0.1.2: Fix issue #1 (31/05/14)
• 0.1.1: Optimisation (12/05/14)
• 0.1.0: Initial release (15/04/14)

License

(Un)licensed under the UNLICENSE