angularx-qrcode - Angular QR Code Generator

angularx-qrcode - a fast and easy-to-use Ivy compatible Ionic and Angular QR Code Generator library

• Compatible with Angular 18 and Ionic
• Ivy compiler support, AOT, SSR (Server Side Rendering)
• Under active development
• Accessibility (a11y) attributes supported (alt, aria-label, title)
• Support for images
• Trusted and used by thousands of developers like you
• Easy to use, sample web app included

angularx-qrcode is compatible with Ionic 3/4/5/6/7/8 and Angular 4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18+ with support for the Ivy compiler. It is a drop-in replacement for the no-longer-maintained angular component ng2-qrcode and based on node-qrcode.

• Installation
• Demo App
• Usage & Example Implementations
• Available Parameters
• Contribute
• Sponsoring
• License

Installation

Angular 18 and Ionic with angularx-qrcode 18

npm install angularx-qrcode --save
# Or with yarn
yarn add angularx-qrcode

Angular 17 and Ionic with angularx-qrcode 17

npm install [email protected] --save
# Or with yarn
yarn add [email protected]

Angular 16 and Ionic with angularx-qrcode 16

npm install [email protected] --save
# Or with yarn
yarn add [email protected]

All supported angular versions

Demo App

Working online demo of Angular QR Code Generator

The source for the working angular app is available in projects/demo-app.

Run the command:

npm start

and open the url http://localhost:4200/ in your browser

Usage and Example Implementations

The source for a live angularx-qrcode demo app and more examples how to implement angularx-qrcode is in the folder projects/demo-app in this repository.

Import the module and add it to your imports section in your main AppModule:

// File: app.module.ts
// all your other imports...
import { QRCodeModule } from 'angularx-qrcode';

@NgModule({
declarations: [
  AppComponent
],
imports: [
  QRCodeModule
],
providers: [],
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

// File: app.component.html
// all your HTML...

<qrcode [qrdata]="'Your data string'" [width]="256" [errorCorrectionLevel]="'M'"></qrcode>

Generate a QR Code from a string (directive only)

Now that angular/Ionic know about the new QR Code module, let's invoke it from our template with a directive. If we use a simple text-string, we need no additional code in our controller.

<qrcode [qrdata]="'Your data string'" [width]="256" [errorCorrectionLevel]="'M'"></qrcode>

Create a QR Code from a variable in your controller

In addition to our <qrcode>-directive in app.component.html, lets add two lines of code to our controller app.component.ts.

// File: app.component.ts
export class QRCodeComponent {
  public myAngularxQrCode: string = null;
  constructor () {
    // assign a value
    this.myAngularxQrCode = 'Your QR code data string';
  }
}

// File: app.component.html
<qrcode [qrdata]="myAngularxQrCode" [width]="256" [errorCorrectionLevel]="'M'"></qrcode>

Download a QR Code

The online demo contains a working sample how to download the QR Code with a button.

Getting the QR Code URL

To download the QR Code, we have to use the qrCodeURL attribute of the <qrcode> which returns a sanitized URL representing the location of the QR Code.

// File: example.ts
export class QRCodeComponent {
  public myAngularxQrCode: string = "";
  public qrCodeDownloadLink: SafeUrl = "";

  constructor () {
    this.myAngularxQrCode = 'Your QR code data string';
  }

  onChangeURL(url: SafeUrl) {
    this.qrCodeDownloadLink = url;
  }
}

// File: example.html
<qrcode (qrCodeURL)="onChangeURL($event)" [qrdata]="myAngularxQrCode" [width]="256" [errorCorrectionLevel]="'M'"></qrcode>
<a [href]="qrCodeDownloadLink" download="qrcode">Download</a>

The file format obtained by qrCodeURL depends directly on the elementType of <qrcode>. If it's either canvas, url or image, it returns an image as .png, if it's svg, returns a .svg file.

Available Parameters

QR Code capacity

Depending on the amount of data of the qrdata to encode, a minimum width is required.

AOT - Ahead Of Time Compilation

angularx-qrcode supports AOT Compilation (Ahead-of-Time Compilation) which results in significant faster rendering. An AOT-enabled module is included. Further reading: https://angular.io/guide/aot-compiler

SSR - Server Side Rendering

As of version 1.6.0, SSR support is fully implemented, the following workaround is no longer needed. HowTo use Angular QRCode with SSR

Contribute

• Please open your PR against the development branch.
• Make sure your editor uses prettier to minimize commited code changes.
• You cannot contribute but want to support development? Consider a sponsorship.

Sponsoring

Support the development of angularx-qrcode (or even see your logo here?), consider sponsoring angularx-qrcode. Your support is much appreciated!

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 - present Andreas Jacob (Cordobo.com)