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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.”
crypto.randomUUID().A-Za-z0-9_-).
So ID size was reduced from 36 to 21 symbols.import { nanoid } from "nanoid";
model.id = nanoid(); //=> "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT"
Nano ID is built by Evil Martians, an American design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups.
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The uuid package can generate RFC-compliant UUIDs. It offers different versions of UUIDs, such as v1 (timestamp-based), v4 (random), and others. Compared to nanoid, uuid provides more standardized and structured IDs, but they are not as compact as nanoid's IDs.
Shortid is another package for generating short non-sequential url-friendly unique ids. However, it is no longer recommended for use as it has been deprecated in favor of nanoid, which is more secure and maintains a smaller size.
Uniqid is a package that generates unique IDs based on the current time and an optional prefix or suffix. It is less feature-rich compared to nanoid and does not provide the same level of customization or security.
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A tiny (117 bytes), secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator
The npm package nanoid receives a total of 115,888,424 weekly downloads. As such, nanoid popularity was classified as popular.
We found that nanoid demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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