Moving forward

[ritz078]

So I have been keeping busy with few of my projects and really don't want to stop the maintenance of this project. I really want to improve this module moving forward. The TODO currently includes:

• improve the development experience by better code, removing grunt (and replacing it with npm scripts)
• fix the bugs
• make the features optional and provide an option for custom build. tree shaking will do too.
• ES2015
• Start work on Angular 2.

I would really welcome contribution and collaboration on this. I would also like to welcome @robman87 as a collaborator and would be hopefully investing more time on this in the near future. Thanks.

[robman87]

Thank you @ritz078 , I like this project and will try to help out now and then. Sounds like a good plan 👍

[robman87]

@ritz078 I took a look at your excellent emoji-js project.
Why not use that as a dependency and integrate the vanilla JS version with AngularJS?

[ritz078]

Reasons:

• It uses many libraries like fetch, fetch-jsonp which are not needed in Angular.
• certain utility functions are already available in Angular.
• I don't need promises in angular due to the 2 way data binding.

So If I use that here, there will be lot of extra code that is not needed. I also plan to change that library to something like babel which uses different features by the help of plugins.