# liveblocks/frimousse

A lightweight, unstyled, and composable emoji picker for React.

Repository: https://github.com/liveblocks/frimousse
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/frimousse
Homepage: https://frimousse.liveblocks.io
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: component, emoji, emoji-picker, emojibase, liveblocks, react, unstyled
Last push: 2026-08-19T17:40:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 40, longevity 41
- inputs: {"age_days": 576, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": 414, "gap_med": 12, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1777, forks 42 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:34.565608+00:00)

## What it is
Frimousse is a lightweight, unstyled, and composable emoji picker component library for React. It is dependency-free, virtualized for performance, accessible, and lets developers bring their own styles via Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, or vanilla CSS.

## Use cases
- add an emoji picker to a React chat app
- build a custom-styled emoji selector with Tailwind
- add emoji reactions to a comment box
- install an emoji picker as a shadcn/ui component
- create an accessible emoji search input
- render a virtualized emoji list with minimal re-renders

## When to choose
- you need a headless emoji picker you can fully style yourself
- bundle size and performance matter
- you use React and want keyboard/screen-reader accessibility out of the box
- you want shadcn/ui integration

## When to avoid
- you need a pre-styled, ready-made emoji picker UI
- your project is not React-based
- you need emoji data offline without any fetching

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: emoji-picker, react, unstyled, headless-ui, emojibase, shadcn-ui, accessible-components, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- liveblocks/frimousse (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.565608+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:25:13.281860+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/liveblocks/frimousse (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.565608+00:00, sha c8ac62e8bf6e)
  - homepage: https://frimousse.liveblocks.io (fetched 2026-08-29T11:03:47.004235+00:00, sha 164c3eb322ec)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/frimousse (fetched 2026-08-29T11:03:47.013857+00:00, sha 18c14cde9358)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.