A lightweight, unstyled, and composable emoji picker for React.
Frimousse publishes a shadcn registry at frimousse.liveblocks.io, with 0 components installable through the shadcn CLI.
Copy a prompt for your agent, copy the install command, or open the docs that ship it.
Everything this registry ships is already here.
npm i frimousse
If you are using shadcn/ui, you can also install it as a pre-built component via the shadcn CLI.
npx shadcn@latest add https://frimousse.liveblocks.io/r/emoji-picker
Learn more in the shadcn/ui section.
Import the EmojiPicker parts and create your own component by composing them.
import { EmojiPicker } from "frimousse";
export function MyEmojiPicker() {
return (
Loading…
No emoji found.
);
}
Apart from a few sizing and overflow defaults, the parts don’t have any styles out-of-the-box. Being composable, you can bring your own styles and apply them however you want: Tailwind CSS, CSS-in-JS, vanilla CSS via inline styles, classes, or by targeting the [frimousse-*] attributes present on each part.
You might want to use it in a popover rather than on its own. Frimousse only provides the emoji picker itself so if you don’t have a popover component in your app yet, there are several libraries available: Radix UI, Base UI, Headless UI, and React Aria, to name a few.
If you are using shadcn/ui, you can install a pre-built version which integrates with the existing shadcn/ui variables via the shadcn CLI.
npx shadcn@latest add https://frimousse.liveblocks.io/r/emoji-picker
It can be composed and combined with other shadcn/ui components like Popover.
Find the full documentation and examples on frimousse.liveblocks.io.
The name “frimousse” means “little face” in French, and it can also refer to smileys and emoticons.
The emoji picker component was originally created for the Liveblocks Comments default components, within @liveblocks/react-ui.
The emoji data is based on Emojibase.
All contributions are welcome! If you find a bug or have a feature request, feel free to create an issue or a PR.
The project is setup as a monorepo with the frimousse package at the root and frimousse.liveblocks.io in the site directory.
Install dependencies and start development builds from the root.
npm i
npm run dev
The site can be used as a development playground since it’s built with the root package via Turborepo.
npm run dev:site
The package has 95%+ test coverage with Vitest. Some tests use Vitest’s browser mode with Playwright, make sure to install the required browser first.
npx playwright install chromium
Run the tests.
npm run test:coverage
Releases are triggered from a GitHub action via release-it, and continuous releases are automatically triggered for every commit in PRs via pkg.pr.new.
Frimousse is a component library on 21st.dev by liveblocks with 1 public React component. Every component ships with a live interactive preview and full TSX source — copy the code, install it through the shadcn CLI, or pull it into Cursor or Claude Code over MCP.