/emojione-picker

A react emoji picker for use with emojione

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

npm version

Emoji Picker

A friendly Emoji picker for Emojione written as a React component. It looks a little something like this, but is easily customized:

Emoji Picker

Installation

npm install emojione-picker

Usage

The npm module includes a pre-transpiled version of the picker so you don't need to run it through your JSX pipeline. Simply require the module like any other.

var EmojiPicker = require('emojione-picker');

<EmojiPicker onChange={function(data){
  console.log("Emoji chosen", data);
}} />

The module also includes CSS at css/picker.css which you can copy and edit or ideally reference directly from within the node_modules directory. Let me know if you're using this in production - i'd love to see it in action!

Filtering

You can manually pass in a search term as a component prop to filter which emoji's are displayed by default, for example:

<EmojiPicker search="smile" />

Or allow the user to search by passing a boolean true, this will enable a search input within the picker:

<EmojiPicker search={true} />

Emoji Picker with Search

Customize Categories

You can easily customize the category icons by passing in alternatives to the component constructor. The emoji strings come from the shortname value in strategy.js

var categories = {
  people: {
    title:'People',
    emoji: 'smile'
  },
  nature: {
    title: 'Nature',
    emoji: 'mouse'
  },
  food: {
    title: 'Food & Drink',
    emoji: 'burger'
  }
}

<EmojiPicker categories={categories} />

Spritesheets

You can make the picker use a spritesheet, however this requires a little extra work. Emojione settings can be passed into the Picker component as below. Follow these instructions to load the correct spritesheets into your page.

var settings = {
  imageType: 'png',
  sprites: true
};
<EmojiPicker categories={categories} emojione={settings} />

Development

npm install
npm run watch

Open examples/index.html in a browser to see a preview of the picker

License

MIT License

Emojione is used under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY 4.0) - If you use this component you should also include attribute to Emojione someone within your website or application to satisfy the terms of the license.