I wrote a custom extension to replace emoticons and system emojis with Twitter Emoji (Twemoji), but need help to tweak some details!

[rfgamaral]

I was in the need of something like the SmilieReplacer.ts but on steroids, so I tried to build my own custom extension to achieve that.

The main goals of this were:

• Find every emoticon (e.g., :), :D, :'), etc.) and replace them Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)
• Find every unicode emoji (native system emojis) and replace them Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)

I was able to achieve that with a custom extension (demo), but there's at least one quirk to fix:

Content with native system emojis is broken when pressing Space (playground) (CodeSandbox)

demo-issue-1.mp4

You can see that with each Space press a new emoji is inserted, not sure why this is happening.

[rfgamaral]

I fixed my issue above by tweaking my emoticon/emoji regular expressions.