usid

Short ID Generator

Installation

NPM

npm i usid

Yarn

yarn add usid

Example

Quick Example

// Node
const USID = require("usid");

// Deno
// Importing the latest version of USID from deno.land
// import USID from "https://deno.land/x/usid/mod.ts";

// Initializing the USID Object
const usid = new USID();

// Create 15 characters Unique ID
const unique_id = usid.uuid();
console.log("Unique ID:", unique_id);

// Create 3 characters Random ID
const random_id = usid.rand();
console.log("Random ID:", random_id);

Usage

Importing or requiring to your project.

// Node
const USID = require("usid");

// Deno
import USID from "https://deno.land/x/usid/mod.ts";

Random ID with custom length

rand(length) method, generates a random ID with custom length, default length is 3

const usid = new USID();

// Default length
const len = 3;

const random_id = usid.rand(len); // output: vCk

UUID

uuid(length) method, generates Unique ID based on your machine timestamp, the default length is 15
The greater the length, the more it can avoid duplicated ID’s, the length of 15 is ideal if you are generating ID’s with less than 500,000 ID’s per seconds without duplicates.
If you are using deno, you can use the flag --allow-hrtime to get more accurate timestamp, if this is enabled, with default 15 length, you can generate up to 1,000,000 ID’s per seconds without duplicates.

const usid = new USID();

// Default length
const len = 15;

const unique_id = usid.uuid(len); //Output: CLiouVTquuTL3wf