Intended to be used in client side apps served on the web, kept bare minimum in code size for that reason.
Uses crypto.getRandomValues when available, fallbacks to Math.random() otherwise.
collision-free generation is not guranteed. Increase length for less collision probability.
npm i tiny-uid
import uid from 'tiny-uid';
console.log(uid()); // > 5oylanv
console.log(uid(12)); // > a6ps30ruclh0
uid([length = 7])Returns randomly generated alpha-numeric string. Optionally you can specify custom length for returned string, defaults to 7.
Note: At the moment, generated string is all lowercase, but is subject to change in future releases, should needs/use cases, require so.
FAQs
Barebones code to generate a uid of custom length
The npm package tiny-uid receives a total of 2,847 weekly downloads. As such, tiny-uid popularity was classified as popular.
We found that tiny-uid 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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