nanoid

Nano ID

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A tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript.

“An amazing level of senseless perfectionism, which is simply impossible not to respect.”

• Small. 118 bytes (minified and brotlied). No dependencies. Size Limit controls the size.
• Safe. It uses hardware random generator. Can be used in clusters.
• Short IDs. It uses a larger alphabet than UUID (A-Za-z0-9_-). So ID size was reduced from 36 to 21 symbols.
• Portable. Nano ID was ported to over 20 programming languages.

import { nanoid } from 'nanoid'
model.id = nanoid() //=> "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT"

  Made at Evil Martians, product consulting for developer tools.

Docs

Read full docs here.

Changelog

5.1.6

• Fixed infinite loop on 0 size for customAlphabet.

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