Last night I had a stupid idea, and wanted to check if it is technically possible. Well, it is!<p>In a nutshell: Emoji support for your website's URLs.<p>yourwebsite.com/contact - booring<p>yourwebsite.com/:phoneemoji: - cool!<p>So I wrote a nodejs middleware that offers emoji support for your API, with 2 lines of code. (well if you count the installation 3 lines)<p>Here's the project:<p><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/slashemoji" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/slashemoji</a><p>I currently have support for the /contact and /about routes.<p>Can you give me some ideas of what other URLs to cover, and what emojis to link the routes to?
Rather than trying to exhaustively predict all the pages you could ever want, maybe it would be smarter to build this as a middleware. That way you could also support things like post requests, multiple emojis in a path, or paths off of something other than root.<p>Additionally, you could allow your code to accept a mapping of emojis to strings. That way people could use other emojis without hammering you to support them, and the same emoji could be used to represent different strings on different sites.<p>Overall I think its a cool idea, but if I were you I'd be worried about the huge amount of work to extend this functionality as-is if it got popular.
I created an updated package with the ability to customize your emojis, and implemented it into our site (there are some examples in the description): <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-express" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-express</a>
Sharing a demo url would help.<p>pages you can cover: careers/jobs, pricing, status, faqs, blog, terms of service, privacy policy.<p>Hope this helps.