emoji-button

Emoji Button

Vanilla JavaScript emoji picker 😎

Emoji Button turns an ordinary button into an emoji picker. When the target button is clicked, the emoji picker will be shown and a callback will be executed when an emoji is picked.

Demo

https://joeattardi.github.io/emoji-button

Features

• 💻 Vanilla JS, use with any framework
• 🔎 Emoji search
• 👍🏼 Skin tone variations
• ⏱ Recently used emojis

Installation

npm install --save emoji-button

Basic usage

  import EmojiButton from 'emoji-button';

  const button = document.querySelector('#emoji-button');
  const picker = new EmojiButton();

  picker.on('emoji', emoji => {
    document.querySelector('input').value += emoji;
  });

  button.addEventListener('click', () => {
    picker.pickerVisible ? picker.hidePicker() : picker.showPicker(button);
  });

API

new EmojiButton(options)

Creates an Emoji Button emoji picker.

Options

• position: The position to display the picker relative to the reference element. Valid values are:

  • auto
  • auto-start
  • auto-end
  • top
  • top-start
  • top-end
  • right
  • right-start
  • right-end
  • bottom
  • bottom-start
  • bottom-end
  • left
  • left-start
  • left-end

• rootElement: The root DOM node to attach the picker to. Defaults to the body if not passed in.

• autoHide: (boolean, default: true) Whether or not the picker should automatically be hidden when an emoji is clicked.

• i18n: An object containing localized messages to display in the UI. The values and their defaults are as follows:

{
  search: 'Search',
  categories: {
    recents: 'Recently Used',
    smileys: 'Smileys & People',
    animals: 'Animals & Nature',
    food: 'Food & Drink',
    activities: 'Activities',
    travel: 'Travel & Places',
    objects: 'Objects',
    symbols: 'Symbols',
    flags: 'Flags'
  },
  notFound: 'No emojis found'
}

showPicker(referenceElement)

Shows the picker, positioning it relative to the given reference element. The reference element is usually the button or other element that was clicked to open the picker.

hidePicker()

Hides the picker.

pickerVisible (property)

Will be true if the picker is currently visible, and false if not.

on(event, callback)

Adds an event listener. Currently there is only one event:

• emoji: Fired when an emoji is picked. The callback is called with a single argument, the emoji character that was picked.

Development

The easiest way to hack on Emoji Button is to use the examples page.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/joeattardi/emoji-button.git

From the repository root

Install dependencies

npm install

Set up the link

npm link

Start the build/watch loop

npm run build:watch

From the examples subdirectory

Install dependencies

npm install

Link the library

npm link emoji-button

Start the dev server

npm start

Open the page

http://localhost:5000