qreate

Qreate

QR Code generator for browser and node.js with tree shaking and logo support

Overview

• generate image in png, svg and pdf formats
• numeric and alphanumeric modes
• support UTF-8
• supports color customization
• supports logos
• tree shaking support
• browser / node.js

Releases

Installing

npm install qreate
# or
yarn add qreate

Usage

Example:

import { getSVG } from "qreate/lib/svg";
import { getPNG } from "qreate/lib/png"; // imports canvas implementation in browser and sharp module in node.js
import { getPDF } from "qreate/lib/pdf"; // this import is large, consider async import
const svgString = await getSVG("I love QR", {
    logo: fs.openFileSync("my-logo.svg"),
    color: "#000000",
    bgColor: "#FFFFFF",
});
const pngBuffer = await getPNG("I love QR", {
    logo: fs.openFileSync("my-logo.svg"),
    color: "rgb(0, 0, 0)",
    bgColor: "rgb(255, 255, 255)",
});

More examples

Syntax

• getPNG(text, [options]): Readable stream with image data.
• getSVG(text, [options]): Readable stream with image data.
• getPDF(text, [options]): Readable stream with image data.

Options

• text: text to encode
• options: additional image options object

Additional Options

Name	Description	Type	Possible Values	Default
ec_level	error correction level	string	L, M, Q, H	M
type	image type	string	png, svg, pdf	png
size	png and svg only size of one module in pixels	number	0 - n	5 (png) 0 (others)
margin	white space around QR image in modules	number	0 - n	4 (png) 1 (others)
parse_url	EXPERIMENTAL try to optimize QR-code for URLs	boolean	true, false	false
logo	buffer with png/jpeg image	ArrayBuffer	-	undefined
logoWidth	height of logo in percent	number	0 - 100	20
logoHeight	width of logo in percent	number	0 - 100	20
color	module color in rgba or hex format	number	#000000 - #000000	#000000 (black with 100% opacity)
bgColor	background color in rgba or hex format	number	#000000 - #FFFFFF	#FFFFFF (white with 100% opacity)
borderRadius	border-radius (in pixels)	number	0 - size / 2	0

Benchmarks

getPNG x 229 ops/sec ±0.45% (84 runs sampled)
getPDF x 186 ops/sec ±24.91% (86 runs sampled)
getSVG x 2,482 ops/sec ±0.18% (90 runs sampled)
getPNG with logo x 69.96 ops/sec ±0.72% (68 runs sampled)
getPDF with logo x 44.83 ops/sec ±9.52% (77 runs sampled)
getSVG with logo x 2,494 ops/sec ±0.19% (88 runs sampled)

TODO

• Use lighter versions of PDF library
• Background