An emoji picker component for React applications.

• This package assumes it runs in the browser. I have taken many steps to prevent it from failing on the server, but still, it is recommended to only render the component on the client. See troubleshooting section for more information.

npm install emoji-picker-react

import EmojiPicker from 'emoji-picker-react';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <EmojiPicker />
    </div>
  );
}

Component Design 🎨
Pavel Bolo

• Custom click handler
• Dark mode
• Customizable styles via css variables
• Default skin tone selection
• Skin tone change
• Different emoji sets (Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter)
• Native Emoji support
• Emoji Component To Render Emojis in your app

The following props are accepted by them picker:

• onEmojiClick: (emojiData: EmojiClickData, event: MouseEvent) => void - Callback function when an emoji is clicked. The callback receives the event and the emoji data. The emoji data is comprised of the following properties:

  {
    activeSkinTone: SkinTones;
    unified: string;
    unifiedWithoutSkinTone: string;
    emoji: string;
    names: string[];
    getImageUrl: (emojiStyle: EmojiStyle) => string;
  }

• theme: Theme - The theme of the picker. Can be light, dark or auto. Default is light. The Theme enum can be imported from the package.

  import { Theme } from 'emoji-picker-react';

• emojiStyle: EmojiStyle - The emoji style to use. Can be either apple, google, facebook, twitter or native. Default is apple. The EmojiStyle enum can be imported from the package.

  import { EmojiStyle } from 'emoji-picker-react';

• autoFocusSearch: boolean - Whether to focus the search input on mount. Defaults to true.

• lazyLoadEmojis: boolean - Whether to lazy load the emojis. Defaults to false.

• defaultSkinTone: SkinTones - The default skin tone to use when an emoji is clicked. Defaults to SkinTones.Neutral. Possible skin tones are:

  • ✋ 'neutral'
  • ✋🏻 '1f3fb'
  • ✋🏼 '1f3fc'
  • ✋🏽 '1f3fd'
  • ✋🏾 '1f3fe'
  • ✋🏿 '1f3ff'

The skin tones typescript enum can be imported directly from the package:

import { SkinTones } from 'emoji-picker-react';

• searchDisabled: boolean - Whether to disable the search input. Defaults to false. When disabled, the skin tone picker will be shown in the preview component.

• skinTonesDisabled: boolean - Whether to disable the skin tone selection. Defaults to false.

• skinTonePickerLocation: SkinTonePickerLocation - The location of the skin tone picker. Can be either SEARCH or PREVIEW. Defaults to SEARCH. The SkinTonePickerLocation enum can be imported from the package.

  import { SkinTonePickerLocation } from 'emoji-picker-react';

• previewConfig: PreviewConfig - Full control over the Preview component, either to show/hide it, change the default emoji or the default caption.

{
  defaultEmoji: string; // defaults to: "1f60a"
  defaultCaption: string; // defaults to: "What's your mood?"
  showPreview: boolean; // defaults to: true
}

• searchPlaceholder: string - The placeholder text for the search input. Defaults to Search.

• categories: Allows full config over ordering, naming and display of categories. To only sort/omit categories, you can simply pass an array of category names to display:

  • 'suggested',
  • 'smileys_people',
  • 'animals_nature',
  • 'food_drink',
  • 'travel_places',
  • 'activities',
  • 'objects',
  • 'symbols',
  • 'flags'

  For a more in-depth configuration, you can pass an array with category config:

  [
    {
      category: 'suggested',
      name: 'Recently Used'
    },
    {
      category: 'smileys_people',
      name: 'Faces...'
    }
  ];

• suggestedEmojisMode: SuggestedEmojisMode - The mode to use for the suggested emojis. Can be either recent or frequent. Defaults to recent. The SuggestionMode enum can be imported from the package.

  import { SuggestionMode } from 'emoji-picker-react';

• emojiVersion: string - Allows displaying emojis up to a certain version for compatibility. The passed version will be parsed as a float and each emoji will be tested against it. Common values are:

  • "0.6"
  • "1.0"
  • "2.0"
  • "3.0"
  • "4.0"
  • "5.0"

• getEmojiUrl: (unified: string, emojiStyle: EmojiStyle) => string - Allows to customize the emoji url and provide your own image host. The function receives the emoji unified and the emoji style as parameters. The function should return the url of the emoji image.

To customize the dimensions of the picker, use the height and width props. You can pass in a number that will be treated as pixel size, or your any accepted css width/height as string.

<EmojiPicker height={500} width={400} />

<EmojiPicker height="100%" width="15em" />

The picker can be customized via css variables. The root selector for the picker is .EmojiPickerReact, when overriding, make sure to provide a more specific selector.

In dark mode, the specific selector is .EmojiPickerReact.epr-dark-theme.

The list of possible variables is quite extensive, but the main ones you may want to override are:

• --epr-emoji-size: The size of the emojis.

• --epr-emoji-gap: The space between emojis.

• --epr-hover-bg-color Hovered emoji background color.

• --epr-bg-color: The background color of the picker. When changing it, you should also change --epr-category-label-bg-color as they are usually the same color.

• --epr-text-color: The text color in the picker.

The picker exports an Emoji component. The emoji component is the same used within the picker, so it will render the same way as the emojis in the picker. You can choose to render emojis either as native, or as images.

import { Emoji, EmojiStyle } from 'emoji-picker-react';

export function MyApp() {
  return (
    <p>
      My Favorite emoji is:
      <Emoji unified="1f423" size="25" />
    </p>
  );
}

emoji-picker-react has a top-level error boundary, trying to catch rendering errors. It won't catch server side related errors, or event handlers errors. If an error is caught, the picker will not render, and a console error will be logged.

To avoid errors such as "document is not defined" on the server side, you should make sure the library is only imported on the client side. Here is how to do that:

import dynamic from 'next/dynamic';

const Picker = dynamic(
  () => {
    return import('emoji-picker-react');
  },
  { ssr: false }
);

For reference, if you only need to shim global, you can add

<script>
  window.global = window;
</script>

If you enjoy using emoji-picker-react, you may be interested in some of my other open source projects:

• Vest - The best form validation framwork to date.
• Context - Context propagation library for JS Apps.
• n4s - enforce: fluent assertion library.