Generate grouped unicode emojis from unicode-emoji-json

build/build.js

@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ console.log(
 var spinner = ora('building for production...')
 spinner.start()
 
+var updateEmoji = require('./update-emoji').updateEmoji
+updateEmoji()
+
 var assetsPath = path.join(config.build.assetsRoot, config.build.assetsSubDirectory)
 rm('-rf', assetsPath)
 mkdir('-p', assetsPath)

build/dev-server.js

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ var webpackConfig = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'testing'
   ? require('./webpack.prod.conf')
   : require('./webpack.dev.conf')
 
+var updateEmoji = require('./update-emoji').updateEmoji
+updateEmoji()
+
 // default port where dev server listens for incoming traffic
 var port = process.env.PORT || config.dev.port
 // Define HTTP proxies to your custom API backend

build/update-emoji.js

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+
+module.exports = {
+  updateEmoji () {
+    const emojis = require('unicode-emoji-json/data-by-group')
+    const fs = require('fs')
+
+    Object.keys(emojis)
+      .map(k => {
+        emojis[k].map(e => {
+          delete e.unicode_version
+          delete e.emoji_version
+          delete e.skin_tone_support_unicode_version
+        })
+      })
+
+    const res = {}
+    Object.keys(emojis)
+      .map(k => {
+        const groupId = k.replace('&', 'and').replace(/ /g, '-').toLowerCase()
+        res[groupId] = emojis[k]
+      })
+
+    console.log('Updating emojis...')
+    fs.writeFileSync('static/emoji.json', JSON.stringify(res))
+    console.log('Done.')
+  }
+}