Regular expression for word boundaries but including emojis [duplicate]

Question

I have a corpus of text that I'm parsing with a regular expression to find the most common words. Currently I'm using .match(/(?!'.*')\b\[\w'\]+\b/g). My problem is that \w does not match on non-alphanumeric characters and my emoji never get parsed. Specifically, I'm trying to make a regex that will identify words (including contractions) and emoji, separating on the word boundary.

As an example I'd like to be able to take "Hey there! 👋, let's go to the moon 🌝🚀" and get

Array( "Hey", "there", "👋", "let's", "go", "to", "the", "moon", "🌝", "🚀")

Answer 1

To work around it you may find spread operator helpful:

var str = "Hey there! 👋, let's go to the moon 🌝🚀";
var words = [], word = '';
[...str].forEach(function(char) {
  // Test if current char is an English letter, a digit or '
    if (/[a-z0-9']/i.test(char)) {
        word += char;
    }
    // Test if current char is a non-whitespce char out of ASCII
    else if (/(?=\S)[^\u0000-\u007f]/.test(char)) {
        words.push(char)
    } else if (word !== '') {
    // Add a word to words array
        words.push(word)
        word = '';
    }
})
console.log(words);

Answer 2

With guidance from commenters, I was able to get the following pattern to work:

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which is basically word boundaries with all the emojis added in.

https://regex101.com/r/5rgYDx/3