Using Flash or Torch with Html5 QR code library

Minhaz
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3 min readOct 30, 2022

Learn how to use torch with Javascript QR scanning library on Smartphones or enabling torch with camera in general using JS.

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html5-qrcode is a fairly used open source library for implementing QR Code or Bar-Code scanner in a web application. It has 400K+ downloads on Github and going around 31K downloads/week on NPM.

I authored this library in my university…

Minhaz
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Senior Software Engineer @Google. Leading teams democratising On device AI for for masses. Writes about programming generics & specifics.