Unique ID generators for Javascript

Published at Jun 6, 2022

Writen by Thagichu Anthony

Intro

Javascript has multiple libraries that help in generating unique IDs, some of the more common ones are:

npm install --save uuid

import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';

uuidv4(); // "9b1deb4d-3b7d-4bad-9bdd-2b0d7b3dcb6d"

npm install --save nanoid

import { nanoid } from 'nanoid'

nanoid() // "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT"

npm install --save cuid

import cuid from 'cuid';

cuid(); // cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn

npm install --save shortid

import shortid from 'shortid';

shortid.generate(); // PPBqWA9