DEV3 Free Emoji and Special Character Picker — Source Code (React + Tailwind)

Source code of the DEV3 Emoji and Special Character Picker, an emoji and symbol picker with search, categories, recent picks and copy as character, HTML entity or Unicode code. Data bundled compactly from emojibase-data.

Free download: sign in to any DEV3 account and click Download ZIP. Try it live: https://dev3.tech/tools/emoji-special-character-picker shows the finished tool running.

What is in the download

• A standalone Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS project: src/tool holds the tool, shared pieces sit beside it
• package.json with exact versions plus a lockfile, so npm ci works
• README.md (run, build, embed in Next.js or plain React) and an MIT LICENSE

What the code does

• About 1,900 emoji plus nine symbol sets
• Search by name, keyword or hex code
• Recent list stored in local storage
• Entity, U+ and JS escape formats

Tech stack

React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS 4.

Install and customise

The How to install and How to use tabs list the steps. In short: unzip, npm ci, npm run dev, then copy the tool folder into your own app if you want to embed it.

Good to know

• A browser-only tool: there is no backend or database in the code.