Tutorial: Creating new emoji

Creating new emoji

1. Create the actual emoji file with your favorite means. Square SVG's with properly set viewBox'es are highly recommended, I have not checked if other formats work.

2. Save it in client/res/emoji/ under an appropriate file name.

3. Edit client/lib/emoji.js:

   index[name] = filename
   

   ...Where name is the name of the emoji to use, and filename is the filename in client/res/emoji/ without the extension. For example, the entry for the emoji euphoria with the file euphoria.svg would look like that:

   index["euphoria"] = "euphoria"
   

4. Optional: Aliases can be added by copying values in the index object from one key to another, and optionally removing the entry for the former key; for example, renaming euphoria to euphoria2 would look like that:

   index["euphoria2"] = index["euphoria"]
   delete index["euphoria"]
   

5. Save the file, and update the client data (docker-compose run frontend in the project directory).

6. Done.