qrcode-terminal
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Package description
The qrcode-terminal package allows you to generate QR codes directly in your terminal. This is particularly useful for CLI applications and development tools where displaying a QR code in a graphical user interface is not feasible. The QR codes generated can encode URLs, text, or other data, and can be scanned using a smartphone or any other QR code reader.
Generate QR Code in Terminal
This feature allows you to generate a QR code in the terminal. The example provided generates a QR code for the URL 'https://www.example.com'. The option 'small: true' makes the QR code compact.
const qrcode = require('qrcode-terminal');
qrcode.generate('https://www.example.com', { small: true }, function (qrcode) {
console.log(qrcode);
});The 'qrcode' package is a more versatile library for generating QR codes. It supports generating QR codes in various formats including image files, which makes it suitable for both server-side and client-side applications. Unlike qrcode-terminal, which is limited to terminal output, qrcode can be used in a broader range of applications.
This package allows you to generate QR codes as PNG, SVG, EPS, or PDF files. It is similar to qrcode-terminal in that it encodes data into QR codes, but it offers more output formats, making it more flexible for different use cases where file outputs are required rather than terminal display.
Readme
Going where no QRCode has gone before.
Can be installed with:
$ npm install qrcode-terminal
and used:
var qrcode = require('qrcode-terminal');
To display some data to the terminal just call:
qrcode.generate('This will be a QRCode, eh!');
If you don't want to display to the terminal but just want to string you can provide a callback:
qrcode.generate('http://github.com', function (qrcode) {
console.log(qrcode);
});
$ npm install -g qrcode-terminal
$ qrcode-terminal --help
$ qrcode-terminal 'http://github.com'
node-qrcode is a popular server-side QRCode generator that
renders to a canvas object.
To setup the development envrionment run npm install
To run tests run npm test
Gord Tanner <gtanner@gmail.com>
Micheal Brooks <michael@michaelbrooks.ca>
FAQs
QRCodes, in the terminal
The npm package qrcode-terminal receives a total of 1,698,831 weekly downloads. As such, qrcode-terminal popularity was classified as popular.
We found that qrcode-terminal demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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