use standard twemoji module from NPM

assets/js/src/emoji.js

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+import twemoji from "twemoji";
+
+twemoji.parse(document.body, {
+  callback: function (icon, options) {
+    // simpler relative URIs
+    return "/assets/emoji/" + icon + ".svg";
+  },
+});