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.

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.

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.

Yeh that makes sense, I'll have to come up with a solution for that. I didn't think about it that deeply yet tbh, I just snapped it together as a tongue in cheek project.

I'll explore some solutions for scaling and customizing it, thanks!

Solved it! Routes can be associated with simple one liners now.

For example: emoji.set(':emojisymbol:', '/whatever/route/here')

Thanks again for the input!

Awesome, looking forward to trying it out!

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): https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-express

Sharing a demo url would help.

pages you can cover: careers/jobs, pricing, status, faqs, blog, terms of service, privacy policy.

Hope this helps.

Yeh that makes sense, I'll put it on a server.

Thanks for the suggestions, these are awesome! I'll add them like this (because I can't use spaces): /careers /jobs /pricing /status /faq /blog /terms /privacy

Glad I could help.

I had a question though - why not provide a mapping option to slug for better customization. (pardon - my programming knowledge is very limited)

That is an interesting point, I honestly didn't think about it. The initial thought was to automate everything, so no code has to be written, just a simple import - but this comes at the cost flexibility and customization.

I'll try to figure that out as well for 2.0, maybe there's a user friendly way to customize it

Solved the mapping option! Can be mapped with a one-liner now, thanks again for the input!

Scratched an itch, simple idea, elegant implementation, and useful! I love it :)

Thanks I'm really glad to hear that!

Cool idea, I think it should be mobile only though. Emojis dont show in my chrome browser on PC, as coloured icons that is.

Thanks! Well the old routes are still kept intact, so it can be accessed through let's say yoursite.com/contact - but if you choose to use an emoji you get the contact page too :D

Cool idea, I like it

I second that.

This is a great way to universalize the standard website footers such as About us, privacy, contact us and sitemap

That's a pretty creative input, I didn't think about it from the perspective of universalizing these routes.

I built it as a tongue in cheek project, but I'm starting to get pretty excited about polishing it.

Thanks a lot!