How I Built a Simple Text Repeater That Runs Fully in the Browser

Robin — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 11:36:19 +0000

I run a small site of text tools, and the most used one is a text repeater: type a word or emoji once, choose a count, copy the result. Here's how it works and the gotchas I hit.

The core

function repeat(text, count, sep) {
  return Array(count).fill(text).join(sep);
}

Array(count).fill(text).join(sep) is fast enough for 100,000 copies on a phone. A naive += loop is much slower on large counts.

Gotchas

Size limits. 'I love you' 10,000 times on new lines is ~110,000 characters. WhatsApp allows 65,536 per message, so I show a live size (new Blob([out]).size) before the user copies.
Emoji. Never reverse or slice strings with split(''); use Array.from(str) or Intl.Segmenter so emoji and Hindi text don't break.
Clipboard on mobile. navigator.clipboard.writeText needs a user gesture; keep the copy inside the click handler.
Privacy. Everything runs client-side, so nothing is uploaded.

Try it

The live version is repeat text on RepeatText. If you just want a quick text repeater for WhatsApp or emoji, it's free with no signup. For big jobs there's a repeat text generator that splits long output into parts.

Feedback welcome in the comments!

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How I Built a Simple Text Repeater That Runs Fully in the Browser

The core

Gotchas

Try it