Category: nodejs

Optimizing Merchandise Ordering, Tracking, and Sales with Barcode and QR Code Scanning

In today’s fast-paced retail and supply chain environments, efficiency is king. The ability to order, track, and sell merchandise without delay or error isn’t just an advantage anymore—it’s a necessity. One of the unsung heroes of this operation? The humble barcode scanner. Whether scanning traditional barcodes or QR codes, this technology has evolved into a critical tool for optimizing the entire flow of goods. From ensuring accurate stock levels to streamlining point-of-sale (POS) systems, barcode scanning is a quiet powerhouse driving modern retail and inventory management.

Here’s how barcode and QR code scanning are revolutionizing merchandise handling—and how you can integrate it into your web-based application with a Scandit demo.

Streamlined Inventory Management

Let’s start at the warehouse or backroom. Efficient ordering hinges on having a clear, real-time understanding of what’s available in stock. Each time merchandise arrives, barcode scanning at intake ensures that the product is logged accurately into the inventory system. This eliminates manual data entry errors and ensures that the stock count is current. Need to know how many units of that best-selling product you have on hand? Just a quick scan, and it’s logged into the system with perfect accuracy.

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Could not resolve “@popperjs/core”

I keep getting this error on running dev. Albeit it doesn’t appear I’m getting it in production.

I run.

npm run dev

Then everything appears to be ok, with the standard message like this from vite.

  vite v2.9.9 dev server running at:

  > Local: http://localhost:3000/
  > Network: use `--host` to expose

  ready in 740ms.

But then, once I navigate to the site to check things out.

X [ERROR] Could not resolve "@popperjs/core"

    node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.esm.js:6:24:
      6 │ import * as Popper from '@popperjs/core';
        ╵                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  You can mark the path "@popperjs/core" as external to exclude it from the bundle, which will
  remove this error.

…and this error annoyingly crops up.

11:36:23 PM [vite] error while updating dependencies:
Error: Build failed with 1 error:
node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.esm.js:6:24: ERROR: Could not resolve "@popperjs/core"
    at failureErrorWithLog (C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:1603:15)
    at C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:1249:28
    at runOnEndCallbacks (C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:1034:63)
    at buildResponseToResult (C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:1247:7)
    at C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:1356:14
    at C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:666:9
    at handleIncomingPacket (C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:763:9)
    at Socket.readFromStdout (C:\Users\Adron Hall\Codez\estuary\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:632:7)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:309:12)
Vite Error, /node_modules/.vite/deps/pinia.js?v=72977742 optimized info should be defined
Vite Error, /node_modules/.vite/deps/bootstrap.js?v=14c3224a optimized info should be defined
Vite Error, /node_modules/.vite/deps/pinia.js?v=72977742 optimized info should be defined
Vite Error, /node_modules/.vite/deps/pinia.js?v=72977742 optimized info should be defined (x2)

...

…and on and on and on goes these errors. For whatever reason, even though npm install has been run once just get to the point of running npm run dev, there needs to be a subsequent, specifically executed npm install @popperjs/core to install this particular dependency that throws this error.

So that’s it, that’s your fix. Cheers!

A Shiny New Vuejs v3 Web App Using & Deployed to Amplify/AppSync/Cognito

No cruft, let’s just start.

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The Fastest Way to Build a Quick Starter App with Express.js

Over the years I’ve used Express.js many times as a quick getting started example app. Since I often reference it I wanted to provide a short post that shows exactly what I do 99.9% of the time to start one of these quick Express.js reference apps. I’ve detailed in this post how to get started with Express.js the fastest way I know. There is one prerequisite, I’m assuming in this post you’ve already got Node.js installed. With that in mind, check out my installation suggestions for Node.js if you need to get that installed still. The other thing, is you’ll need to have git installed. On MacOS and Linux git is most likely installed already, if you’re on Windows I’ll leave that googling exercise up to you.

Create a directory and navigate into the directory.

mkdir quick-start-express
cd quick-start-express

Now in that directory execute the following command. Note, this command is available as of node.js 8.2.0.

npx express-generator
npm install

Inside that directory that you’ve navigated to, you’ll now have an Express.js skeleton app setup to run with the dependencies now downloaded with npm install. On MacOS or Linux run the following command to start the web app.

DEBUG=quick-start-express:* npm start

If you’re on Windows run the following command.

set DEBUG=quick-start-express:* & npm start

That’s it, one of the quickest ways to get a Node.js site up and running to start developing against!

If you’d like to dig in a bit deeper, here’s a great follow up post on creating APIs with Express. Give it a read, it’ll give you some great next steps to try out!

Cheers, and happy thrashing code!

The Method I Use Setting Up a Dev Machine for Node.js

UPDATED: April 4th, 2019, March 17th, 2022, and again on November 18th, 2024.

It seems every few months setup of whatever tech stack is always tweaked a bit. This is a collection of information I used to setup my box recently. First off, for the development box I always use nvm as it is routine to need a different version of Node.js installed for various repositories and such. The best article I’ve found that is super up to date for Ubuntu 18.04 is Digital Ocean’s article (kind of typical for them to have the best article, as their blog is exceptionally good). In it the specific installation of nvm I’ve noticed has changed since I last worked with it some many months ago.

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