extended-snowflake, Javascript implementation

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Javascript Info

• Zero dependencies
• Tiny: ~1kB

Usage

import {ExtSnowflakeGenerator} from 'extended-snowflake';
 
// Create generator using an instance ID
const generator = new ExtSnowflakeGenerator(0);
 
const snowflake = generator.next();
 
// --- ---
 
// If using worker + process instead of instance ID:
import {ExtSnowflakeGenerator, combineWorkerProcess} from 'extended-snowflake';
 
const generator = new ExtSnowflakeGenerator(combineWorkerProcess(0, 0));

Version History

2.1.0
  Added unit tests
  Fixed bugs with higher values
2.0.0
  Imports changed, so incrementing major version
  Generator now uses single instance ID, added function to turn worker+process into instance ID
1.0.1
  Fixed bug with string padding
1.0.0
  Initial release

General Info

An ID generation library, based on Twitter's Snowflake design. It also splits the instance ID into instance/worker, the same way Discord does.

Like a normal Snowflake, the IDs are roughly sortable. A generic String sort will group IDs to the millisecond, which is the same as a normal Snowflake.

+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|     Extension      |                      Twitter Snowflake                      |
+---------+----------+--------+-----------------+-----------+------------+---------+
| 8 bits  | 8 bits   | 1 bit  | 41 bits         | 5 bits    | 5 bits     | 12 bits |
+---------+----------+--------+-----------------+-----------+------------+---------+
| Version | Epoch ID | Unused | #ms since epoch | Worker ID | Process ID | Counter |
+---------+----------+--------+-----------------+-----------+------------+---------+

It's really just a couple of bytes in front of a normal Snowflake. The extension defines two variables:

• Version
  • Defined in this version to be 0xA0.
  • Must start with a "letter" in hex, for easy checking between an extended Snowflake and a normal one
• Epoch ID
  • Number from 0-255
  • Timestamp epochs start on the first millisecond of 1st of January of the year calculated from this number
  • Epoch year calculated by: (<Epoch ID> * 50) + 2000
  • Examples:
    • 0 -> Year 2000
    • 1 -> Year 2050
    • 2 -> Year 2100
    • 255 -> Year 14,750
  • This means IDs shouldn't be generated past the year 14799, and I honestly think we'll have better ID generation before then.

In addition, the Unused bit is defined to always be 0.