remark-emoji

remark-emoji is a remark plugin to replace :emoji: to real UTF-8 emojis in text. Accessibility support and Emoticon support are optionally available.

Demo

You can find a demo in the following Codesandbox.

Usage

remark().use(emoji [, options]);

import {remark} from 'remark';
import emoji from 'remark-emoji';

const doc = 'Emojis in this text will be replaced: :dog: :+1:';
const processor = remark().use(emoji);
const file = await processor.process(doc);

console.log(String(file));
// => Emojis in this text will be replaced: 🐶 👍

Note that this package is ESM only from v3.0.0 since remark packages migrated to ESM.

Options

options.accessible

Setting to true makes the converted emoji text accessible with role and aria-label attributes. Each emoji text is wrapped with <span> element. Note that role attribute is not allowed by default. Please add it to the sanitization schema used by remark's HTML transformer.

For example,

import {remark} from 'remark';
import toHtml from 'remark-html';
import {defaultSchema} from 'hast-util-sanitize'
import emoji from 'remark-emoji';

// Allow using `role` attribute in transformed HTML document
const schema = structuredClone(defaultSchema);
if ('span' in schema.attributes) {
    schema.attributes.span.push('role');
} else {
    schema.attributes.span = ['role'];
}

const processor = remark()
    .use(emoji, { accessible: true })
    .use(toHtml, { sanitize: schema });
const file = await processor.process('Hello :dog:!');
console.log(String(file));

yields

Hello <span role="img" aria-label="dog emoji">🐶</span>!

Default value is false.

options.padSpaceAfter

Setting to true means that an extra whitespace is added after emoji. This is useful when browser handle emojis with half character length and following character is hidden. Default value is false.

options.emoticon

Setting to true means that emoticon shortcodes are supported (e.g. :-) will be replaced by 😃). Default value is false.

TypeScript support

remark-emoji package contains TypeScript type definitions. The package is ready for use with TypeScript.

Note that the legacy node (or node10) resolution at moduleResolution is not available since it enforces CommonJS module resolution and this package is ESM only. Please use node16, bundler, or nodenext to enable ESM module resolution.

License

Distributed under the MIT License.