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 19 and Ionic
• Under active development
• Standalone component support
• Ivy compiler support, AOT, SSR (Server Side Rendering)
• 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 4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19+ 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 19 and Ionic with angularx-qrcode 19

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

Angular 18 and Ionic with angularx-qrcode 18

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

Angular 17 and Ionic with angularx-qrcode 17

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

All supported angular versions

| Angular Version | angularx-qrcode Version | | --------------- | ----------------------- | | ^19 | ^19.0.0 | | ^18 | ^18.0.2 | | ^17 | ^17.0.1 | | ^16 | ^16.0.2 | | ^15 | ^15.0.1 | | ^14 | ^14.0.0 | | ^13 | ^13.0.15 | | ^12 | ^12.0.3 | | ^11 | ^11.0.0 | | ^10 | ^10.0.12 | | ^9 | ^2.3.7 | | ^8 | ^2.1.4 | | ^5 / ^6 / ^7 | ^1.6.4 | | ^4 | ^1.0.3 |

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 located in the directory projects/demo-app of this repository.

Upgrade angularx-qrcode from angularx-qrcode 18 and earlier

Since Angular 19, the latest version of the angularx-qrcode module is now exported as a standalone component. If you’re upgrading from a version before Angular 19, please replace the import statement with the component’s name since it’s now a standalone component.

# OLD - angular 18 and older
# File: app.module.ts
import { QRCodeModule } from 'angularx-qrcode';

# NEW - angular 19 and newer
// File: app.component.ts
import { QRCodeComponent } from 'angularx-qrcode';

For more uses with angular 18 and earlier see: angularx/qrcode as ngModule

Import the component and add it to your imports section in your main AppComponent:

// For angular 19, see above for angular 18 and older
// File: app.component.ts
// other imports...
import { QRCodeComponent } from 'angularx-qrcode';

@Component({
  selector: "app-root",
  imports: [
    // other component imports...
    QRCodeComponent,
  ],
  templateUrl: "./app.component.html",
  styleUrls: ["./app.component.css"],
})
export class AppComponent {
  // your code
}

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

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

Generate a QR Code from a string

Now that angular/Ionic know about the new QR Code component, let's invoke it from our template. 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

| Attribute | Type | Default | Description | | -------------------- | ----------------------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | allowEmptyString | Boolean | false | Allow qrdata to be an empty string | | alt | String | null | HTML alt attribute (supported by img, url) | | ariaLabel | String | null | HTML aria-label attribute (supported by canvas, img, url) | | colorDark | String | '#000000ff' | RGBA color, color of dark module (foreground) | | colorLight | String | '#ffffffff' | RGBA color, color of light module (background) | | cssClass | String | 'qrcode' | CSS Class | | elementType | String | 'canvas' | 'canvas', 'svg', 'img', 'url' (alias for 'img') | | errorCorrectionLevel | String | 'M' | QR Correction level ('L', 'M', 'Q', 'H') | | imageSrc | String | null | Link to your image | | imageHeight | Number | null | height of your image | | imageWidth | Number | null | width of your image | | margin | Number | 4 | Define how much wide the quiet zone should be. | | qrCodeURL | EventEmitter<SafeUrl> | | Returns the QR Code URL | | qrdata | String | '' | String to encode | | scale | Number | 4 | Scale factor. A value of 1 means 1px per modules (black dots). | | title | String | null | HTML title attribute (supported by canvas, img, url) | | version | Number | (auto) | 1-40 | | width | Number | 10 | Height/Width (any value) |

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)