Decided to just make this a ToDo-List demo, showcasing some work I've done while learning React.js.
Gratefully using ahfarmer's 'emoji-search' React example as a guideline to start.
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Update 09/11/18: Got it up and published. Some quirks still, such as the local storage display. For now, items that were previously stored will be added to the list as a purplish color upon addition of the first new element. Hopefully will get that fixed soon. But mostly the major Todo-List functions work well!