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Deprecated, there are better libraries than this one.

randi

A small ID generator

randi is a small ID generator library. It is not meant to be used for things like UUIDs or truly unique identifiers but for things like URL shorteners.

Installation

It can be installed with either bower or npm depending on the environment.

npm install --save randi

bower install -S randi

Setup

Randi supports different kinds of setup scenarios. In other words, it can be used in a CommonJS environment like node.js, in a AMD environment like require.js or in the browser without any module management (where it will export a global function randi());

Usage

randi() is a function that takes two arguments, the length and optional options.

length: Length of the string to be generated options: An object with options, default values below:

{
    "charset": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890"
}

It is also possible to provide the options only. randi() will then return a function that takes the length as argument and returns the ID (currying).

Example

var randi = require('randi');
 
for( var i = 0; i < 10; i++ )
    console.log('%s %s %s %s\n'
        randi(10),
        randi(5),
        randi(2),
        randi(10) );