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done! https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-datasource

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Similar to issue #21, the problem is that npm does not support packages that contain a ton of binary image data; even just the 64px sheets come out to 17MB

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A package also already exists on npm called emoji-data, which includes this data file as a vendored dependency: https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-data

You can use this repo as a dependency by including the git URL in your own package.json

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As you can see I'm already using your repo as dependency here.

npm dependencies are just more clean and you can exclude some files (only the result spritesheets and the data is needed actually - which are pretty small) from the registry, and speedup the installation process for my own library, same goes for bower.
Would really love seeing that!

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Also your repo has a package json, and even though I installed your repo from github, it still errors (here's my build log) on package.json validation.

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i'm not sure about the error you're seeing; sorry

i see you switched your dependency to download from github and that seems like a reasonable interim solution. i've been advised by npm to put the images as a tarball somewhere and have the package download these, rather than including them into the package itself, but that will require a bunch of work

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Exactly, that what I did in my own project, though you can create another repo which will download the images on installation.
Again, that's work.
who knows I might find the time to do it myself

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After PR #48 we're pretty close - just need to get the namespace now 👍

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Hey, how is it going?

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it's stalled trying to figure out how to not break things for existing users of the emoji-data package. i guess a new name for the npm package makes sense. any suggestions?

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Yeah from experience you'll have to get a new name.
emoji-db, emoji-source, emoji-datasource

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Great! testing usage right now.
You should update your README.md

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