@kvsrohit/shortid

@kvsrohit/shortid

ShortId (https://www.npmjs.com/package/shortid) has been an amazing module to generate short non-sequential url-friendly unique ids. However it is no longer maintained and suggests using NanoId (https://www.npmjs.com/package/nanoid) as replacement.

NanoId is simple and straight forward. However, it is not a drop-in replacement. Specially places where ShortId is a transient dependency.

This project uses NanoId and provides same interface as ShortId so that it can be used as drop-in resolution for transient dependencies.

Usage

const shortid = require('@kvsrohit/shortid');

console.log(shortid.generate());

Mongoose Unique Id

_id: {
  'type': String,
  'default': shortid.generate
},

API

const shortid = require('@kvsrohit/shortid');

---

shortid.generate()

Returns string non-sequential unique id.

Example

users.insert({
  _id: shortid.generate(),
  name: '...',
  email: '...'
});

---