dfx-qrcode

dfx-qrcode is a tiny and simple-to-use Angular QR-Code generator library.

• Demo
• Installation
• Version compatibility
• Usage
  • Standalone Components
  • Module
• Configuration
  • Standalone Components
  • Module
  • Component parameters
• Error Correction Level
• QR Code capacity

Features

• ESM based
• Tiny (~ 10.2kB minified + gzipped)
• Accessible
• Server Side Rendering (Angular Universal)
• Standalone Component API
• Supports Canvas, PNG and SVG

Version compatibility

Angular	dfx-qrcode
18.x.x	3.x.x
17.x.x	2.x.x
16.x.x	1.x.x

Installation

• npm

  npm install dfx-qrcode

• pnpm

  pnpm install dfx-qrcode

Usage

Standalone Components

import { QRCodeComponent } from 'dfx-qrcode';

@Component({
  standalone: true,
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: ` <qrcode data="hello" /> `,
  imports: [QRCodeComponent],
})
export class AppComponent {}

Module

import { QRCodeComponent } from 'dfx-qrcode';

@NgModule({
  declaration: [AppComponent],
  imports: [QRCodeComponent],
})
export class AppModule {}

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: ` <qrcode data="hello" /> `,
})
export class AppComponent {}

Configuration

Standalone Components

import {
  provideQRCode,
  QRCodeComponent,
  withAllowEmptyString,
  withColorDark,
  withColorLight,
  withElementType,
  withErrorCorrectionLevel,
  withImage,
  withImageHeight,
  withImageSrc,
  withImageWidth,
  withMargin,
  withSize,
  withVersion,
} from 'dfx-qrcode';

@Component({
  // ...
  standalone: true,
  imports: [QRCodeComponent],
  providers: [
    provideQRCode(
      withAllowEmptyString(false),
      withColorDark('#000000'),
      withColorLight('#FFFFFF'),
      withCssClass('qrcode'),
      withElementType('img'),
      withErrorCorrectionLevel('L'),
      withMargin(4),
      withImage(withImageSrc('assets/logo.png'), withImageWidth(40), withImageHeight(40)),
      withVersion(-1),
      withSize(5),
    ),
  ],
  template: ` <qrcode data="hello" /> `,
  // ...
})
export class AppComponent {}

Module

import {
  provideQRCode,
  QRCodeComponent,
  withAllowEmptyString,
  withColorDark,
  withColorLight,
  withElementType,
  withErrorCorrectionLevel,
  withImage,
  withImageHeight,
  withImageSrc,
  withImageWidth,
  withMargin,
  withSize,
  withVersion,
} from 'dfx-qrcode';

@NgModule({
  declaration: [AppComponent],
  imports: [QRCodeComponent],
  providers: [
    provideQRCode(
      withAllowEmptyString(false),
      withColorDark('#000000'),
      withColorLight('#FFFFFF'),
      withCssClass('qrcode'),
      withElementType('img'),
      withErrorCorrectionLevel('L'),
      withMargin(4),
      withImage(withImageSrc('assets/logo.png'), withImageWidth(40), withImageHeight(40)),
      withVersion(-1),
      withSize(5),
    ),
  ],
})
export class AppModule {}

On component usage

@Component({
  // ...
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `
    <qrcode
      [data]="'hello'"
      [allowEmptyString]="true"
      [elementType]="'img'"
      [errorCorrectionLevel]="'L'"
      [ariaLabel]="'Description of QR-Code'"
      [title]="'Description of QR-Code'"
      [alt]="'Description of QR-Code'"
      [cssClass]="'qrcode'"
      [colorDark]="'#000000'"
      [colorLight]="'#FFFFFF'"
      [margin]="4"
      [size]="5"
      [version]="-1"
      [imageSrc]="'assets/logo.png'"
      [imageWidth]="40"
      [imageHeight]="40"
    />
  `,
  // ...
})
export class AppComponent {}

Parameters

Name	Type	Default value	Description
allowEmptyString	boolean	false	Define if empty or undefined strings should be converted to a space (" ") or throw an error.
elementType	'img' | 'canvas' | 'svg'	img	Define if the QR-Code should be rendered as HTMLImageElement or HTMLCanvasElement
errorCorrectionLevel	'L' | 'M' | 'Q' | 'H'	L	Define the error correction level
cssClass	string	qrcode	Define a css class for the wrapper element of the QR-Code
colorDark	Hex color	#000000	Define the color of the dark elements
colorLight	Hex color	#FFFFFF	Defined the color of the light elements
margin	number	4	Define the margin around the QR-Code in px
size	number	5	Define the size of the modules of the QR-Code in px
version	number	-1	Define the QR-Code version. -1 means auto-select
ariaLabel	string | undefined	undefined	String which should be set as aria-label tag
title	string | undefined	undefined	String which should be set as title tag
alt	string | undefined	undefined	String which should be set as alt tag
imageSrc	string | undefined	undefined	Path to image displayed in the QR-Code center
imageHeight	number | undefined	undefined	Height of center image in px
imageWidth	number | undefined	undefined	Width of center image in px

Error correction level

Error correction capability allows to successfully scan a QR Code even if the symbol is dirty or damaged. Four levels are available to choose according to the operating environment.

Higher levels offer a better error resistance but reduce the symbol's capacity.
If the chances that the QR Code symbol may be corrupted are low (for example if it is showed through a monitor) is possible to safely use a low error level such as Low or Medium.

Possible levels are shown below:

Level	Error resistance
L (Low)	~7%
M (Medium)	~15%
Q (Quartile)	~25%
H (High)	~30%

The percentage indicates the maximum amount of damaged surface after which the symbol becomes unreadable.

If not specified, the default value is L.

QR Code capacity

Capacity depends on symbol version and error correction level. Also encoding modes may influence the amount of storable data.

The QR Code versions range from version 1 to version 40.
Each version has a different number of modules (black and white dots), which define the symbol's size. For version 1 they are 21x21, for version 2 25x25 e so on. Higher is the version, more are the storable data, and of course bigger will be the QR Code symbol.

The table below shows the maximum number of storable characters in each encoding mode and for each error correction level.

Mode	L	M	Q	H
Numeric	7089	5596	3993	3057
Alphanumeric	4296	3391	2420	1852
Byte	2953	2331	1663	1273

If no version is specified, the more suitable value will be used. Unless a specific version is required, this option is not needed.

By Dafnik