girocode

GiroCode

A simple and tiny library for generating GiroCode (EPC QR code) strings

Usage

npm install --save girocode

import giroCode from 'girocode';

const result = giroCode({
  name: 'Wikimedia',
  iban: 'DE33100205000001194700',
  bic: 'BFSWDE33BER',
  amount: 1.23,
});

if (result) {
  // Pipe `result` into your preferred QR code generator and do something with the resulting QR code
  console.log(result);
} else {
  // Something went wrong (e.g. invalid IBAN)
}

If you provide invalid data (e.g. an invalid IBAN or missing BIC if version 1 is used), the function will return undefined.

Bring your own QR code generator

This package (intentionally) does not contain generating the actual QR code as this usually is highly dependent on the use-case, e.g. rendering a raster image vs. SVG vs. CLI/terminal vs. fancy/artistic codes. https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords:qr provides a list of QR-code-related packages where you should be able to find a suiting library for your use-case. When creating the QR code, make sure that the error correction is at the »M«/medium level (i.e. resistance of 15%).

Changelog

• 1.0.0
  • Initial version

Roadmap

Potentially it could make sense to not only generate a GiroCode but also to parse one (into a JavaScript object) including proper validations? Maybe this gets added later, we’ll see.

License

Copyright (c) 2023 Thomas Rasshofer
Licensed under the MIT license.

See LICENSE for more info.