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I guess I will surprise everyone when I say Emacs has something similar built in already (with the super-intuitive C-x 8 <RET>)? :)

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For the record. The UI is based on the latest Vue 2.3.3. That's really a nice and easy to work with lib/framework. It was easier to understand and use it compared to when I tried React (half a year ago).

p.s. I can't get it why this post is not showing in the "Show" section O_o

p.p.s. maybe someone had to approve it. Thanks to whoever did that ^_^

Reminds me of http://charcod.es. Except charcod.es does fuzzy search on all characters. They even have a duckduckgo bang (!char).

Instagram engineering did a blog post a while back on implementing emoji hashtags explaining (among other things) how some are represented by >1 unicode character. Pretty interesting read [0].

[0] https://engineering.instagram.com/emojineering-part-ii-imple...

Good work!

Only thing I see is when using a small screen, due to the "inline-block" property of the emoji, although it is responsive, the padding of the "emojis-wrapper" isn't equal both sides, so the emojis aren't centered. You could try forcing that for a super small improvement

Searching 'cry' find the 'joy' emoji, but not the 'joy cat' emoji. Also, I feel that searching for 'droplet', should find all the emojis, that have a droplet in it ('joy', 'cry', 'sleep', and so on)

I will definitely work on that.

Is there an API for this. I'm developing an application that is an Emoji journaling application. https://emojilog.surge.sh This would help out with text-to-emoji parsing.

Looks nice but I find it more convenient using ⌃ + ⌘ + Space on OSX.

I just turned on the "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar" option in preferences so I have the icon I can click in the top right of my screen.

Same, but I don't think there's a shortcut on windows 10. You have to enable the touch keyboard button in the taskbar to get it

It's pretty choppy in Firefox (no fault of your own, truth be told), but it is really slick in Safari. Nice work.

On Linux Ubuntu Chrome 60.0.3095.5 is pretty choppy, while Firefox 54.0a2 is smooth

It doesn't show the diversified emoji, are you working on that?

Like the speed and search by the way, faster than emojipedia.

Yup, I have some ideas. Thanks for the kind words!

Works fine on Safari on iOS and Safari on MacOS by the way

Is there an emoji for :/ smilies? I couldn't find one the other day on Android and don't know what to search for but it's easily my most used smilie.

This[0] is meant to be :/

[0]http://emojipedia.org/confused-face/

edit: HN strips out emoji. Not surprised in hindsight.

Oh, too bad it's so different. Thanks for the link though.

hate emoji, my gf is using HTC, I'm using iPhone and ... When she send me a kiss I'm seeing something different!!!

http://emojipedia.org/kiss/

That's HTC's fault. The kissing lips emoji is different.

I wish emojipedia worked like this. Great job,

Looks nice!

Cheers, mate!

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