Logic to send Emojis to Facebook Client

[zarmeen92]

Add a backend logic for sending Emojis to Facebook client Dependency: #292

[ImranBinShoukat]

This task has been completed.

[jekram]

Thanks

[zarmeen92]

emojis are not appearing on Fb Messenger @ImranBinShoukat

[ImranBinShoukat]

Worked on this task. Actually react-emoji-picker uses twemoji which converts annotations (like : smile : , ) into emoji images ( :smile: ) but it seems that Facebook doesn't support twemoji.

I have investigated these libraries:

https://github.com/tommoor/emojione-picker https://github.com/StevenIseki/react-emojipicker https://github.com/missive/emoji-mart

Although all of them also uses twemoji but it returns the unicode as well. And Facebook does convert a unicode into emoji image.

I will discuss about these libraries with @zarmeen92 tomorrow and pick the one for our app.

[ImranBinShoukat]

This is fixed now. I have replaced the https://github.com/chadoh/react-emoji-picker with https://github.com/StevenIseki/react-emojipicker and now its working fine.

[zarmeen92]

Code reviewed and merged. Also pulled in production

[jekram]

Thanks