@sanity/uuid
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Generate a valid Sanity document ID
$ npm install @sanity/uuid
// or
$ yarn add @sanity/uuid
import {uuid} from '@sanity/uuid'
const id = uuid()
console.log(id)
//=> 76dc5edf-9c43-4bab-a62d-4a2cad650053
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The `uuid` package is one of the most popular libraries for generating UUIDs. It supports multiple versions of UUIDs (v1, v3, v4, v5) and provides a comprehensive API for generating and validating UUIDs. Compared to @sanity/uuid, it offers more flexibility and options for different UUID versions.
The `shortid` package generates short, unique, non-sequential ids. While it does not generate standard UUIDs, it is useful for cases where shorter unique identifiers are sufficient. It is simpler and more lightweight compared to @sanity/uuid.
The `nanoid` package is a tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator. It is smaller and faster than UUID and shortid, making it a good alternative for generating unique identifiers in performance-critical applications. Unlike @sanity/uuid, it does not generate standard UUIDs.
FAQs
Simple generation of sanity document IDs
The npm package @sanity/uuid receives a total of 457,339 weekly downloads. As such, @sanity/uuid popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @sanity/uuid demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 38 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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