emojify-webpack-plugin

Dev tools

webpack plugin

SHOW HN2017

26points
5comments
#1,101of 2,242 in 2017
Top 50%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Funny and amusing idea

    From 2 comments
    • Heh, this is quite funny. By quick reading, it seems to just encode the input JavaScript source bytes into emoji. A further development idea would be to parse the input file with…
      vesinisa on HN
    • I love that the question of 'WHY?!' is asked and answered on their Github project page.
      danesparza on HN
  • Could be a standard for uglifying JS

    From 1 comment
    • This should be the industry standard for uglifying js. I would love to inspect source of websites and find out that everything is an emoji.
      haburka on HN

Objections

  • Only encodes source bytes, so it is not a real parser-based approach

    From 1 comment
    • Heh, this is quite funny. By quick reading, it seems to just encode the input JavaScript source bytes into emoji. A further development idea would be to parse the input file with…
      vesinisa on HN

Requests

  • Encode only keywords and constants as emoji, leaving the rest as-is

    From 1 comment
    • Heh, this is quite funny. By quick reading, it seems to just encode the input JavaScript source bytes into emoji. A further development idea would be to parse the input file with…
      vesinisa on HN

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