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Implements COMB UUIDs (UUID v4 Variant B) which sort to chronological order.
Implements COMB UUIDs (UUID v4 Variant B) which sort to chronological order.
'use strict';
const CombUUID = require('comb-uuid');
// create a new UUID
const uuid = CombUUID.encode();
// decode an existing UUID
const obj = CombUUID.decode(uuid);
// { version: '4',
// variant: 'b',
// timestamp: 161745940159400,
// timestamp_js: 2021-04-03T14:16:41.594Z,
// random: '6f842887a4866c60fd' }
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Implements COMB UUIDs (UUID v4 Variant B) which sort to chronological order.
We found that comb-uuid demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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