[nextgen] initial cardstack work

labscore/utils/embed.js

@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ module.exports.formatPaginationEmbeds = function(embeds){
 }
 
 // Creates a page for our paginator. simple helper so we dont have to do {embeds:[]} every time
-module.exports.page = function(embed, message = {}){
+module.exports.page = function(embed, message = {}, metadata = {}){
   return Object.assign(message, {
-    embeds: [embed]
+    embeds: [embed],
+    _meta: metadata,
   })
 }
 

labscore/utils/markdown.js

@@ -33,11 +33,10 @@ module.exports.iconAsEmojiObject = function(icon){
   let i = _icon(icon);
 
   return {
-    id: i.replace(/<:[a-z0-9_]*:([0-9]*)>/g,"$1"),
-    name: i,
-    animated: false, // TODO: fix this for animated emoji if we ever need them
+    id: i.replace(/<a?:[a-z0-9_]*:([0-9]*)>/g,"$1"),
+    name: "i",
+    animated: i.startsWith("<a:")
   }
-
 }
 
 /**