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crypto-randomuuid
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This is a polyfill for the crypto.randomUUID
method in Node.js. It will use
the built-in version, if present. There are plenty of other uuid modules, but
this one aims to be as functionally identical as possible to the Node.js core
function.
This uses a pure JavaScript replacement of the secureBuffer
function using
randomFillSync
rather than the native version using OPENSSL_secure_malloc
in Node.js core. This may have security implications, so I'd recommend against
using this anywhere that cryptographically secure uuids are important.
npm install crypto-randomuuid
https://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_crypto_randomuuid_options
This is all copy/pasted from Node.js core, so see the license there: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/LICENSE
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Polyfill crypto.randomUUID
The npm package crypto-randomuuid receives a total of 3,173,224 weekly downloads. As such, crypto-randomuuid popularity was classified as popular.
We found that crypto-randomuuid 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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