Password Generator

A fast, simple and powerful open-source utility tool for generating strong, unique and random passwords. Password Generator is free to use as a secure password generator on any computer, phone, or tablet.

Installation

From NPM or YARN

To install the Password Generator Tool, use either npm or yarn as follows:

npm i @sebastienrousseau/password-generator
yarn add @sebastienrousseau/password-generator

From GitHub

Clone the main repository to get all source files including build scripts: git clone https://github.com/sebastienrousseau/password-generator.git

❓ What's included

Within the download you'll find all the password generator source files grouped into the dist folder.

You'll see something like this:

.
├── COPYRIGHT
├── LICENSE
├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── Report.txt
├── index.js
├── package.json
└── src
    ├── dictionaries
    │   ├── adjectives.json
    │   ├── adverbs.json
    │   ├── animals.json
    │   ├── cars.json
    │   ├── cities.json
    │   ├── common.json
    │   ├── countries.json
    │   ├── dinosaurs.json
    │   ├── emoji.json
    │   ├── encouraging.json
    │   ├── ergative.json
    │   ├── fruits.json
    │   ├── gemstones.json
    │   ├── hazards.json
    │   ├── instruments.json
    │   ├── lovecraft.json
    │   ├── metals.json
    │   ├── music.json
    │   ├── nouns.json
    │   ├── prepositions.json
    │   ├── shakespeare.json
    │   ├── sports.json
    │   ├── strange.json
    │   ├── vegetables.json
    │   └── winds.json
    ├── lib
    │   ├── base64-password.js
    │   ├── memorable-password.js
    │   └── strong-password.js
    └── utils
        ├── README.md
        ├── randomConsonant.js
        ├── randomNumber.js
        ├── randomSyllable.js
        ├── randomVowel.js
        ├── toCamelCase
        │   ├── README.md
        │   └── toCamelCase.js
        ├── toCharArray
        │   ├── README.md
        │   └── toCharArray.js
        ├── toKebabCase
        │   ├── README.md
        │   └── toKebabCase.js
        ├── toSnakeCase
        │   ├── README.md
        │   └── toSnakeCase.js
        └── toTitleCase
            ├── README.md
            └── toTitleCase.js

9 directories, 50 files

💿 Usage

From the CLI

node .

Displays the following help menu

Usage: password-generator [options]

A fast, simple and powerful open-source utility tool for generating strong, unique and random passwords

Options:
  -v, --version              output the current version
  -t, --type <type>          specify a password type (default: "base64, memorable or strong")
  -l, --length <numbers>     specify a length for each iteration
  -i, --iteration <numbers>  specify a number of iteration
  -s, --separator <char>     specify a character for the separator
  -h, --help                 display help for command

From Node.js

var generatePassword = require('password-generator');

From the Browser

<script src="<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sebastienrousseau/password-generator/master/src/bin/password-generator.js>" type="text/javascript"></script>

🔐 Password options

Base64 password

Generating a random base64 password using yarn

yarn start -t base64 -l 8 -i 4 -s -

Generating a random base64 password using node

node . -t base64 -l 8 -i 4 -s -

Generating a random base64 password calling the base64Password function

node dist/src/lib/base64-password.js -t base64 -l 8 -i 4 -s -

Strong password

Generating a random strong password using yarn

yarn start -t strong -l 8 -i 4 -s -

Generating a random strong password using node

node . -t strong -l 8 -i 4 -s -

Generating a random strong password calling the strongPassword function

node dist/src/lib/strong-password.js -t base64 -l 8 -i 4 -s -

Memorable password

Generating a random memorable password using yarn

yarn start -t memorable -i 4 -s -

Generating a random memorable password using node

node . -t memorable -i 4 -s -

Generating a random memorable password calling the memorablePassword function

node dist/src/lib/memorable-password.js -t base64  -i 4 -s -

🚥 Semantic Versioning Policy

For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, password-generator follows semantic versioning and ESLint's Semantic Versioning Policy.