Emoji Picker React (v4) | Live Demo

What to know before using

• 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.

Installation

npm install emoji-picker-react

Usage:

import EmojiPicker from 'emoji-picker-react';

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

Shout Outs!

Component Design 🎨
Pavel Bolo

Features

• Custom click handler
• Custom Emojis Support
• 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

Props

The following props are accepted by them picker:

Full details

• 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; // the emoji character, for example: '😀'. Emoji ID in custom emojis
    isCustom: boolean; // whether the emoji is a custom emoji or not
    names: string[];
    imageUrl: string; // the url of the emoji image with the current emoji style applied
    getImageUrl: (emojiStyle: EmojiStyle) => string; // a function that receives an emoji style and returns the url of the emoji image with the provided style applied
  }

• 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',
  • 'custom', - Hidden by default
  • '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.

Custom Emojis

The customEmojis prop allows you to add custom emojis to the picker. The custom emojis prop takes an array of custom emojis, each custom emoji has three keys:

id: Unique identifier for each of the custom emojis names: an array of string identifiers, will be used both for display, search and indexing. imgUrl: URL for the emoji image

Usage Example:

<Picker
  customEmojis={[
    {
      names: ['Alice', 'alice in wonderland'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/alice.png',
      id: 'alice'
    },
    {
      names: ['Dog'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/dog.png',
      id: 'dog'
    },
    {
      names: ['Hat'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/hat.png',
      id: 'hat'
    },
    {
      names: ['Kid'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/kid.png',
      id: 'kid'
    },
    {
      names: ['Mic'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/mic.png',
      id: 'mic'
    },
    {
      names: ['Moab', 'desert'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/moab.png',
      id: 'moab'
    },
    {
      names: ['Potter', 'harry', 'harry potter'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/potter.png',
      id: 'potter'
    },
    {
      names: ['Shroom', 'mushroom'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/shroom.png',
      id: 'shroom'
    },
    {
      names: ['Smily'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/smily.png',
      id: 'smily'
    },
    {
      names: ['Tabby', 'cat'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/tabby.png',
      id: 'tabby'
    },
    {
      names: ['Vest'],
      imgUrl:
        'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ealush/emoji-picker-react@custom_emojis_assets/vest.png',
      id: 'vest'
    }
  ]}
/>

Here are some additional things to keep in mind about custom emojis:

• The custom emojis will be added to the Custom category.
• The location or name of the Custom category can be controlled via the categories prop.
• The custom emojis will be indexed by their id property. This means that you can search for custom emojis by their id or names.

Customization

Custom Picker Width and Height

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" />

CSS Variables

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.

Rendering Output Emojis in Your App

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.

Props

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

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

Troubleshooting

Error Boundary

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.

Next.js

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 }
);

Vite

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

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

Other stuff I build

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.