id-generators

id-generators is small JavaScript library to generate ID with awesome Unique ID libraries.

Installation

npm install id-generators

Usages

const generators = require("id-generators");
const generator = generators.get("nanoid");
const generate = generator();
 
console.log("ID: " + generate());
// ID: gCa0wL_8ElTje5cwOci1d
console.log("ID: " + generate());
// ID: 5C_YAjgQl4iM3zK-TValY
console.log("ID: " + generate());
// ID: gQOOwCoQyfCuGK7fgINLd

If you want to customize ID, you can pass an option as an argument to the generator function.

const generators = require("id-generators");
const generator = generators.get("nanoid-simple");
const generate = generator({ size: 25 });
 
console.log("ID: " + generate());
// ID: oa9wj0kfm50gv2qse8l5xup0u
console.log("ID: " + generate());
// ID: xn5ff5odiylg4jehhhp9vtlxv
console.log("ID: " + generate());
// ID: dff7ay5x38k1pkc2pxjv7elky

generator type	ID length	character set	options/default	description
cuid (default)	25	a-z0-9, start with c		use cuid() generated string. e.g. ck2bi7fxf00013ryng5jr1rer
cuid-slug	7-10	a-z0-9		use cuid.slug() generated string. e.g. xh23npi
nanoid / nanoid-good	21	A-Za-z0-9_-	size/21	use nanoid() or nanoid-good generated string. e.g. EwUTt2eoka-oEV5kf-o0O
nanoid-simple / nanoid-simple-good	24	a-z0-9	size/24	use nanoid/generate or nanoid-good/generate generated string. e.g. pfldm3gg8h9psydphotqe71d
nanoid-lowercase / nanoid-lowercase-good	26	a-z	size/26	use nanoid/generate or nanoid-good/generate generated string. e.g. jsjxoibprplrdoitjmppotjrnm

If use nanoid-good or nanoid-xxx-good, you should install nanoid-good manually.

npm install nanoid-good

Define Custom Generators

This sample shows how to register a generator function. The generator function should return a function that returns a ID.

const { register } = require("id-generators");
 
register("my_custom_id", function (option) {
  option = option || {};
  let size = option.size || 8;
  let prefix = option.prefix || "items-";
  return function (title) {
    return (
      prefix + title.toLowerCase().replace(/[^\w]/g, "").substring(0, size)
    );
  };
});

const generators = require("id-generators");
const generator = generators.get("my_custom_id");
const generate = generator({ size: 6 });
 
console.log("ID: " + generate("Hello World!"));
// ID: items-hellow
console.log("ID: " + generate("Foo Bar!"));
// ID: items-foobar

Related

• Awesome Unique ID - A curated list of awesome Unique ID libraries and resources.
• cuid - Collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and binary search lookup performance.
• nanoid - A tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript.
• nanoid-good - Guarantees you will not get any obscene words or other profanity in your ids generated by Nano ID.

License

Copyright (c) 2019 dailyrandomphoto. Licensed under the MIT license.