Slack Alphabetise

This tool converts a simple string of text into Slack "alphabet" emoji codes which you can copy & paste into Slack.

It's available both as a global CLI command, or an importable function in your code.

Installation

Install globally

npm install -g slack-alphabetise

You can now use the slack-alphabetise command globally.

Command usage

slack-alphabetise <string> [style]

• <string> - can be any string containing alpha characters, spaces, !, ?, @ and # (if using spaces, you must wrap the string in "quotes"). The command will fail if any other characters are used.
• [style] - can be either white or yellow (defaults to white).

Example

slack-alphabetise "Hello world!" yellow

Will output:

:alphabet_yellow_h::alphabet_yellow_e::alphabet_yellow_l::alphabet_yellow_l::alphabet_yellow_o: :alphabet_yellow_w::alphabet_yellow_o::alphabet_yellow_r::alphabet_yellow_l::alphabet_yellow_d::alphabet_yellow_exclamation:

When pasted into slack will result in the following emoji being rendered:

Install as a dependency

npm install --save slack-alphabetise

Then in your code:

const alphabetise = require('slack-alphabetise');
const string = 'Hello world!';
const emoji = alphabetise(string, 'yellow'); // available styles are 'white' and 'yellow' (defaults to 'white')
console.log(emoji);

// result:
// :alphabet_yellow_h::alphabet_yellow_e::alphabet_yellow_l::alphabet_yellow_l::alphabet_yellow_o: :alphabet_yellow_w::alphabet_yellow_o::alphabet_yellow_r::alphabet_yellow_l::alphabet_yellow_d::alphabet_yellow_exclamation: