Lightweight emoji picker

This emoji picker has only what you need, and it's size wights less than 250KB including styles and the icons. This picker uses the emojilib from muan: https://github.com/muan/emojilib

Demo

Usage

With npm

npm install lightweight-emoji-picker --save

Without npm

Download the dist/picker.js file from this repository and load it into your website.

Setup

var picker=new EmojiPicker(TargetEl: HTMLNode, Callback: Function, [Language: string, [recommendedEmojis: Array]]);

• TargetEl: HTML Element to display the picker at, will append the picker to the DOM after this element, and position it next to the element by absolute positioning

• Calback: A function that is called when an emoji is choosen. Will receive one parameter with the following data:

  {
    category: (String)categoryName,
    char: (String)the Character,
    keywords: (Array)Array with keywords
  }
  

• Language: Language to display phrases. Possible values en and de

• recommendedEmojis: An array with emojis to display in the special "recommended" category at the top of emoji list. Values have to be the keys from the emoji lib: https://github.com/muan/emojilib/blob/master/emojis.json

Showing / Hiding the picker

There a three methods you can use:

picker.toggle(); // toggles the visible state of the picker
picker.show(); // shows the picker
picker.hide(); // hides the picker