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node-libuuid
Advanced tools
Simple node
binding to the native libuuid implementation.
npm install node-libuuid
Generate and return a time based UUID.
Returns the string
form of the UUID.
Generate and return a secure random UUID (see uuid_generate_random(3)
)
Returns the string
form of the UUID.
Run npm run-script bench
Currently it compares just against node-uuid
.
node-libuuid#generate_random x 5,501,355 ops/sec ±1.32% (100 runs sampled)
node-uuid#v4 x 201,565 ops/sec ±2.84% (84 runs sampled)
Fastest is node-libuuid#generate_random
node-libuuid#v1 x 5,434,475 ops/sec ±1.85% (97 runs sampled)
node-uuid#v1 x 1,028,694 ops/sec ±1.91% (94 runs sampled)
Fastest is node-libuuid#v1
Please include operating system and version and libuuid install status.
Samuel Giles, GPLv2.
FAQs
Node JS wrapper around libuuid
The npm package node-libuuid receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, node-libuuid popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-libuuid 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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