How I made a talking emoji using regular emojis and JavaScript
In this article, I will walk you through how I created an animated talking emoji using JavaScript and the Twitter emoji library.
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ABOUT ME
Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
I am an experienced Full Stack Developer, during the decade of my career, I saw the technology change at incredible speed, making me learn a new stack every year.
I started working during the time when iframe and tables were "cool", and PHP was "the language of the future". I adopted Node.js in the moment that I saw that was superior to PHP and I never regretted that, from that day every project I develop, was with Node.js.
During that time, not only my choice of database transitioned from MySQL (major choice in PHP) to MongoDB and finally to Postgres, redis and Mongo (choosing the right one for the right project), but I also learned that a successful website doesn't use simple queries, but also need that the database needs to execute some code on its side (triggers, functions, ...).
I also made big jumps on the front end. Starting with vanillajs (badly), move to jQuery, then Kendo, then Dojo (a light version of jQuery), moving back to vanillajs because those frameworks had terrible performance, and finally discovering the joy of the uber-complicated first version of Angular. At the end, I discover React, and that has become a big part of my stack.
I've been always passionate about my job, and I really enjoy what I do and learn new things. Many of the things that I learned during these years I didn't mention here, just because aren't relevant, or because the description will be too long.
(At some point during all of that I also discover TDD and Docker)
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EXPERTISE
7 years experience
If you ask me "what is your favourite framework" I will reply React without thinking about it neither one second. I use React from when i...
If you ask me "what is your favourite framework" I will reply React without thinking about it neither one second. I use React from when it start becoming popular, when a store was a place where you buy stuff. I work with React every day, and I love it.
When I work with React, I always write my test in Jest, my favourite testing framework, I have a good experience with it, and I know almost everything regarding it.
10 years experience | 1 endorsement
Javascript is main language, I explored in and out of the language, I've always been passionate about it and followed in first person the...
Javascript is main language, I explored in and out of the language, I've always been passionate about it and followed in first person the evolution.
I'm a big fan of node.green and babel, and Flow (more than Typescript), I always use the latest "stable" technologies, and I'm a big fan of optimisation and funcitonal programming.
I'm a big fan of Test driven development, and all the code I write as always some good tests (not simply good coverage).
9 years experience | 1 endorsement
I work with Node.js before it has become popular, and I simply love it.
I know in and out of it.
My work with Node.js divides into 3 majo...
I work with Node.js before it has become popular, and I simply love it.
I know in and out of it.
My work with Node.js divides into 3 major categories:
Web backend:
With Node I create backends for apps, website, and sometimes also server-side rendered React (this is kind of between backend and frontend).
For my servers, I use Express (sometime hapi), for the database I usually mongodb, but I also have an extensive knowledge of postgres.
And scripts:
With node I also write scripts (like in python or go), with them I can do everything from web automation, continuous integration, to simpler things like support scripts to help automate my projects.
10 years experience
I started developing frontends with jQuery when was the only choice, to pass to vanillajs when I needed to make my code run at 60 fps on ...
I started developing frontends with jQuery when was the only choice, to pass to vanillajs when I needed to make my code run at 60 fps on low-end devices (like a Samsung II).
I then moved to Angular end finally to React.js, technology that I love, and I use in conjunction with webpack, babel and flow.
I also use CSS Modules with SCSS, or simply SCSS in case I'm not using React.
9 years experience
I always make sure that my code works, and to be sure of that I do 2 things:
1. I write my backend code in a deterministic environment, ...
I always make sure that my code works, and to be sure of that I do 2 things:
1. I write my backend code in a deterministic environment, where every test run in the same condition of a prod environment. (Docker)
2. I always try to reach 100% coverage on branches, statements, lines and functions. Not only I usually reach that coverage, but I write tests that actually test the functionality and not simply increase the coverage.
10 years experience
7 years experience
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
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Sergey
December 2017
Very helpful and professional
Laurence
December 2017
Excellent mentor, extremely patient and helpful, quick to understand what was required and went above beyond to help. Highly recommended.
Stephen ZAMBAUX
December 2017
Nice help ;)
Joel Bluestein
December 2017
Maurizio is extremely knowledgable and very helpful.
Removed User
December 2017
He is very friendly and he is really helpful! He solved my problem quickly!
EMPLOYMENTS
Frontend Engineer
WIX
2023-09-01-2024-05-01
At WIX, my job responsibility is to build new functionalities for the form platform. The stack I’m currently using at WIX is React and...
At WIX, my job responsibility is to build new functionalities for the form platform. The stack I’m currently using at WIX is React and Typescript, living on top of a proprietary ecosystem.
HTML/CSS
GitHub
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HTML/CSS
GitHub
TypeScript
React
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Lead Software Engineer
Revel Systems
2020-05-01-2023-09-01
At Revel Systems, my job responsibility was initially to build new functionalities and fixing bugs on our codebase built with React, N...
At Revel Systems, my job responsibility was initially to build new functionalities and fixing bugs on our codebase built with React, Node.js and Python. Successively as the company grew I led the inside project to build a micro-fronted architecture that makes it possible for multiple teams to work independently on the now bigger codebase and release their code without the waiting for other teams to release their work too. My work made it possible for other teams to reduce their cognitive load by reducing the codebase they need to work to a smaller one,improved productivity and reduced conflicts between teams. Now my job revolves around maintaining and improving this architecture, including understanding what other teams need and help them solve architectural dilemmas.
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Git
HTML
TypeScript
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Python 3
Leadership
JavaScript
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GraphQL
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Senior Software Engineer
Moneyfarm
2018-12-01-2020-05-01
During my day to day job at Moneyfarm, I work on a variety of tasks, mostly based on the team I'm on.
My job responsibility i...
During my day to day job at Moneyfarm, I work on a variety of tasks, mostly based on the team I'm on.
My job responsibility is to create new functionalities, improve the existing ones and refactor the code from an old legacy codebase to a new living codebase.
Currently, at Moneyfarm, I have improved the frontend architecture by moving from three different frontend apps, into one single app composed of three micro frontends. This improvement has reduced the page transition time on an average of 90% and in best cases of 99.99%. It also opened the road to have a proper progressive web app.
TypeScript
GitLab
React
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TypeScript
GitLab
React
JavaScript
CI/CD
Cypress.io
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