[FEAT] Suggest to use @qrcode-js/qrcode as qrcode generator about it-tools HOT 3 OPEN

Hi @ruggi99
Thank you for the suggestion!

What would the benefits of using @qrcode-js/qrcode instead of qrcode ? Does it have more interesting features ?

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I would rather see https://github.com/nuintun/qrcode because it also had the ability to decode QR codes and that would be a very nice feature!

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Hi @CorentinTh ,
sorry for being late and Happy Easter.

I think it has the same features like qrcode but you can personalize the output of the canvas like you want.
You can style it like Telegram or Instagram via a property or you can style on your own via a function.
For example: Do you want your dots being a triangle instead? Then write a function (in Javascript) that draws a triangle on the canvas.

Also my project is a monorepo that provides a core library and wrappers around it for NodeJs and browser.
So if someone wants to use it only on browser than it would not have to download node-canvas (as a dependency) that it weights around 250 MB if I remember correctly (that was a problem I was facing in a old project and that's why I wrote the monorepo).
Also my library should work with Vanilla JS and all framework out there, even Vue.js.

As pointed out my library does not decode qrcodes and I have no plan to support it because I strongly think that encoding and decoding qrcodes are separate functions that share almost no code between them.

I have a PR pending wrapping fastify and docker around the core library to create a server serving qrcodes.

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