Highly customizable unicode emoji picker

Highly-customizable emoji picker for Vue 2

Very simple, yet powerful, vue emoji picke.

Installation

With npm

npm i vue-emoji-picker --save

With a CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue-emoji-picker/dist/vue-emoji-picker.js"></script>

Import

With an ES6 bundler (via npm)

Use per component

import EmojiPicker from 'vue-emoji-picker'

export default {
    // ...
    components: {
        EmojiPicker,
    },
    // ...
}

Use globally

import { EmojiPickerPlugin } from 'vue-emoji-picker'
Vue.use(EmojiPickerPlugin)

Using a CDN

<script>
    Vue.use(EmojiPicker)

    new Vue({
        // ...
    })
</script>

Usage

vue-emoji-picker is a slot-based component, to provide maximum flexibility.
Since every ounce of html is created by a consumer (ie. you), you can customize every piece of the component as you wish.

Very simple usage, without any CSS defined

You will need two things. A textarea (or an input), where emojis will be injected, and a component declaration. A simple example is provided below.

<textarea v-model="input"></textarea>

<emoji-picker @emoji="insert" :search="search">
    <div class="emoji-invoker" slot="emoji-invoker" slot-scope="{ events }" v-on="events">
        <button type="button">open</button>
    </div>
    <div slot="emoji-picker" slot-scope="{ emojis, insert, display }">
        <div>
            <div>
                <input type="text" v-model="search">
            </div>
            <div>
                <div v-for="(emojiGroup, category) in emojis">
                    <h5>{{ category }}</h5>
                    <div>
                        <span
                            v-for="(emoji, emojiName) in emojiGroup"
                            @click="insert(emoji)"
                            :title="emojiName"
                        >{{ emoji }}</span>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</emoji-picker>

{
    data() {
        return {
            input: '',
            search: '',
        }
    },
    methods: {
        insert(emoji) {
            this.input += emoji
        },
    },
}

As you may see, you have to declare some things yourself. Namely:

• input - a model for your input/textarea,
• search - a model for the search box inside the component (optional),
• insert(emoji) - a method responsible to put emojis into your input/textarea. Provided emoji is a string representation of the emoji to be inserted.

CSS-styled example

To see what is possible with the component, you can simply have a look at a demo available here.

Available props

• search optional - If you are not using the search functionality, you can omit this one. It should be a model of the search passed from your data.
• emojiTable optional - You can overwrite the default emoji table by providing your own.

Slots

• emoji-invoker
  • events - delares the v-on:click toggle of the picker box,
• emoji-picker
  • emojis - object of unicode emojis,
  • insert() - method to be invoked when an emoji is clicked,
  • display - object containting x, y and visible properties.

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