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Emoji.prototype.length — a tale of characters in Unicode - Contentful
[...'👨👩👦'] // ["👨", "", "👩", "", "👦"]
or ‘👨👩👦’.length // 8
— do you wonder why that works? Stefan Judis found out and shares the technical details on why the Emoji family works so well with JavaScript operations and how you even can dynamically generate the skin color of an emoji with color codes and the unicode.