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Discussion on: 👉 Emoji translations with the 📞 Twilio API for 💬 WhatsApp and Node.js

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Phil Nash

That's interesting! I didn't know there was a list like that of all the emoji kept up to date from the consortium. Looks like a hassle to parse!

I imagine that the manually built mapping allows more expressive keywords to be added to the JSON, rather than trying to determine them from the short description. That's definitely a trade off between ease of maintenance and keyword accuracy.

I didn't know emoninja existed though. I'm excited that it does as I'll be able to use it in my Ruby projects when I need emojis too. Thanks!