You know how sometimes you type English and it has all these letters and words and no emoji? Yeah, emoji-translate fixes that.
This is what you actually want, right? Can't blame you. Here you go. 👏
You can also use this as a standalone library for your own translation purposes.
npm install moji-translate
translate = require('moji-translate');
console.log(translate.getAllEmojiForWord('👀'));
console.log(translate.translate("the house is on fire and the cat is eating the cake"));
The emoji-translate
api has 5 methods:
isMaybeAlreadyAnEmoji
-- returns true if a character is already an emojigetAllEmojiForWord(word)
-- returns a list of possible emoji translationsgetEmojiForWord(word)
-- returns a random translation from the list returned bygetAllEmojiForWord(word)
translate(chunk, onlyEmoji)
-- returns a translation of the whole chunk of text. IfonlyEmoji
is true, then the untranslatable words are removedtranslateForDisplay
-- callstranslate
but returns a<span>
element that contains either the original word, or the emoji translation, ready for display (either as a span, or a<select>
if multiple translations are available)
There's also a Chrome extension that lets you translate any page on the internet to emoji. Your nightmares are finally over.
This was made as part of an ⚡️emoji hackday⚡️ and is powered by emojilib, a magical json
file of emoji names and keywords y'all should use in all your projects.