Improve event descriptions

[WalterEschenbach]

Created a utility function to clean event descriptions prior to being displayed.

fixes #144

Code sandbox example here.

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[egillespie]

Alrighty, let me know if you have questions about the regexes. I think keeping each requirement in a separate regular expression would be easier to comment and maintain. They can be chained like this:

export default description => description
  .trim()
  // Remove ... at end of line
  .replace(/\.\.\.$/, '')
  // Remove emoji
  // TODO: provide URL where this regex came from
  .replace(
    /([\u2700-\u27BF]|[\uE000-\uF8FF]|\uD83C[\uDC00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDFFF]|[\u2580-\u27BF]|\uD83E[\uDD10-\uDDFF])/g,
    ''
  )
  // Replace the last period and everything after it
  // TODO
  // Replace --- and everything after it
  // TODO
  // Remove whitespace that may have appeared
  .trim()
  // Add ... to end
  .concat('...')

When you're ready, @ me and I'll take a look. This is coming along really well! 🤘

[WalterEschenbach]

Hi @egillespie , admittedly took me a little longer than anticipated. Took a couple of trainings on regular expressions - so time well spent. 🧠

The source for the emoji regex is simply a post that I saw on stack overflow - is the URL in the comment above the relevant line of code the correct way to cite a source?

[WalterEschenbach]

Awesome - thank you! 🎉 🎆