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Last time, I shared an article Document Imaging and Uploading with Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) and Node.js, which demonstrated how to deploy a website on the Web server that implemented in node.js with Express. Today, I’ll re-write the sample with Express application generator an ...

Last week, I shared how to display webcam video in desktop and web apps. Based on that, I implemented the barcode reading function using Node.js. In this article, I will share how to build Node.js barcode reader apps for desktop and web with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK.

Node-RED is a flow-based programming tool built-on Node.js. It provides a browser-based editor that helps users to create awesome applications by wiring different nodes. This article shares my experience of building a barcode node with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader on Windows.

A JavaScript barcode SDK can be built in C/C++ for high performance. We can compile C/C++ code to a Node.js addon or WebAssembly. Which one is superior? Let’s try Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK to find the answer.

When searching for barcode SDK online, you can find lots of free and commercial SDKs. However, there are only a few of SDKs cross-platform, which is why Dynamsoft Barcode Reader is outstanding. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK supports Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, and Ras ...

From version 4.x to 5.x, Dynamsoft improved Barcode SDK performance with a big leap. Unfortunately, only Windows edition is available for download so far. In this post, I will share how to create a Node.js extension with the preview version of Dynamsoft Linux Barcode SDK 5.2. ...

Dynamsoft recently released Barcode Reader SDK v5.0 for Windows. You can think of it as a brand new product because a large number of APIs and data structures are redefined. If you have downloaded DBR v5.0 and tried to build Node.js barcode addon with it, you have to spend so ...

Raspberry Pi has been widely used in industrial environments. For instance, you can make a barcode scanner with Raspberry Pi and camera. This article will be useful for developers who want to create Node.js barcode reader applications for IoT devices. I will share how to use ...

libuv is a cross-platform C library for Node.js asynchronous I/O model. It implements Node.js event loop and uses a thread pool to avoid blocking the Node.js event loop with time-consuming I/O operations. The post shares how to use libuv to optimize Dynamsoft barcode addon fo ...

Node.js is available for all platforms including IoT devices like Raspberry Pi. In this post, I will demonstrate how to quickly create an online barcode reader on Raspberry Pi using Node.js and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK.

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader provides C/C++ shared libraries for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The ultimate benefit is that any high-level programming languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP and so on, are capable of wrapping C/C++ APIs using an extension or an addon. N ...

If you want to get a Node.js application into a Docker container from scratch, it’s recommended to read the official guide – Dockerizing a Node.js web app.  It is useful, but not enough for a complicated case. In this post, I’m going to share what problems I have encountered ...

Previously, I shared an article How to Make Node Barcode Reader Addon on Linux, which illustrates how to create a node barcode addon by wrapping Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK on Linux. Since Node.js was born for developing network programs, let’s take a glimpse of how to creat ...

If you want to make a Web barcode reader app using node.js, you may find a node barcode module with npm or build it yourself. Node addons are the bridge between C/C++ libraries and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I will illustrate how to create node barcode addon on Ubuntu with ...

As cloud computing market continues to skyrocket, more and more IT companies tend to release cloud APIs for developers. Most cloud APIs are exposed via REST (Representational state transfer) Web service. In this post, I will illustrate how to create a barcode reader with Node ...

Do you know which programming language is currently ranking first on GitHub? It is JavaScript! JavaScript is not only used for HTML5 Web application development, but also for server-side programming with runtime environment Node.js. With npm, the package manager for Node.js, ...

In this tutorial, I’d like to share how to implement a simple Web application for document imaging and uploading with Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK (DWT) and Node.js.

A few days ago, I read the article - Run .NET and Node.js code in-process with Edge.js, which inspired me to try a new way of WebSocket solutions in JavaScript. It is known that Node.js makes applications, which written in JavaScript, run on server-side. Let’s see how we can ...