uid-promise

uid-promise

Creates a cryptographically strong UID with a 62 character range that can be safely used in URLs.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

How to use

import uid from 'uid-promise';
export default async function getURL () {
  const id = await uid(20);
  return `https://myhost.com/p/${id}`;
}

API

uid(len) => Promise

• Return a Promise that resolves with a string of random characters of length len.
• len must always be provided, else the promise is rejected
• Under the hood, crypto.randomBytes is used.

Credits

• Copyright © 2016 Zeit, Inc and project authors.
• Licensed under MIT.
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