nuid

NODE NUID

A highly performant unique identifier generator.

Installation

Use the npm command:

$ npm install nuid

Basic Usage

var NUID = require('nuid');
var nuid = NUID.next();


// Generate a new crypto/rand seeded prefix.
// Generally not needed, happens automatically.
NUID.reset();

Performance

NUID needs to be very fast to generate and be truly unique, all while being entropy pool friendly. NUID uses 12 bytes of crypto generated data (entropy draining), and 10 bytes of pseudo-random sequential data that increments with a pseudo-random increment.

Total length of a NUID string is 22 bytes of base 36 ascii text, so 36^22 or 17324272922341479351919144385642496 possibilities.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Apcera Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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