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randkey

Dead simple JS module to generate random id/key/hash in various formats, including valid UUID v4.

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Installation

CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/randkey"></script>

NPM

npm i -S randkey

Yarn

yarn add randkey

Snipacks

snipacks add unpkg rk.js randkey

Usage

ES6

import randkey from 'randkey'

CommonJS

let randkey = require('randkey')

AMD

require(['randkey'], randkey => {
    //codes go here
})

Global

If you add a script tag to your HTML, randkey object will be global available.

Methods

randkey.rand(n)

a random number or string by operations witn Math.random() and Date.now().

The n optional argument must to be a number from 2 to 36 to be used with toString(n). Any other values will be ignored.

If a valid n was provided, the method will return a string, else will return a number.

randkey.rand()      // 555847878175
randkey.rand(2)     // '1001010000010000000001111111010100000110'
randkey.rand(8)     // '2036103777231'
randkey.rand(16)    // '12a82628ee7'
randkey.rand(32)    // '18vq5b2hq'
randkey.rand(36)    // 'fdqlsnvb'

Deprecation note: the old methods rand16(), rand32() and rand36() was deprecated in favour to rand(n).

randkey.id4bits()

hexadecimal number as string with 4 chars.

randkey.id4bits() // 'f9c1'

randkey.id8bits()

hexadecimal number as string with 8 chars.

randkey.id8bits() // 'bf9c61ed'

randkey.id16bits()

hexadecimal number as string with 16 chars.

randkey.id16bits() // '6c1f3ac8e0ba611d'

randkey.id32bits()

hexadecimal number as string with 32 chars.

randkey.id32bits() // 'f17e3ac8e0ba925a61ed19016c1f2eb0'

randkey.id64bits()

hexadecimal number as string with 64 chars.

randkey.id64bits() // 'f17e3ac8e0ba925a61ed19016c1f2eb0f17e3ac8e0ba925a61ed19016c1f2eb0'

randkey.uuid()

Valid UUID v4 string.

randkey.uuid() // 'c30663ff-a2d3-4e5d-b377-9e561e8e599b'