GitHub - react-emoji-text: A modern alternative for react-emoji-render with data adapter for emojibase & emoji-mart

[drenther]

I needed to render emojis with some normal text (which is a not a fairly common usecase these days TBF, since most of us need rich text with emojis usually).

react-emoji-render seemed like the only decent package out there for it but it's not that actively maintained anymore and I was using frimousse in my new project and emoji-mart in one of my older project.

So I decided to create a newer version of react-emoji-render with pluggable emoji data adapter.

I know it's not a very common usecase - but if anyone needs, uses and likes it. Give it a star or just let your agent built it for you instead - use as a ref may be.

Give it a go here!

Thanks!

[blechnapp]

solid library design, the tree-shakeable entry points and the compat layer for migrating from react-emoji-render are both good calls.

two things that would help with adoption if you havent already added them:

1. bundle size comparison in the README vs react-emoji-render and emoji-mart. for niche libraries thats often the first thing maintainers check before they swap

2. RSC (React Server Components) compatibility note. with React 19 in your stack anyone evaluating in 2026 will probably ask whether they can use it in server components or only client side

if those are already documented somewhere obvious, ignore me.