uid-promise
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Creates a cryptographically secure UID with a 62 character range that can be safely used in URLs.
Firstly, install the package from npm:
npm install --save uid-promise
Then load it:
const uid = require('uid-promise');
Finally, call it:
await uid(20);
uid(Number len) => Promise
Promise that resolves with a string of random characters
of length lenlen must always be provided, else the promise is rejectedcrypto.randomBytes is usedABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789FAQs
generates a cryptographically strong random uid
The npm package uid-promise receives a total of 567,939 weekly downloads. As such, uid-promise popularity was classified as popular.
We found that uid-promise demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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