prevent error screen on startup

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/web/static/js/emoji-mart-data.js b/web/static/js/emoji-mart-data.js
index 9e75f0cac..5127e2dd2 100644
--- a/web/static/js/emoji-mart-data.js
+++ b/web/static/js/emoji-mart-data.js
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 async function grabEmojiData() {
-  const response = await fetch('/static/emojis.2023.json')
-  const emojiMartData = await response.json()
-  window.emojiMartData = emojiMartData
+  try {
+    const response = await fetch('/static/emojis.2023.json')
+    const emojiMartData = await response.json()
+    window.emojiMartData = emojiMartData
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.warn(`Failed to load emojis`)
+  }
 }
 
 grabEmojiData()