StandardID

Generate IDs using the same format

This can be useful if you have user facing IDs that you want to be consitently formatted

Install

$ npm install standardid

Usage

const standardID  = require('standardid') // Require the module
 
// Create a new generator
// This will generator an ID of 3 uppercase alphabets followed by 3 digits
let generator = new standardID("AAA000");
 
// Generate a new ID
let newID = generator.generate();
 
// Set blueprint after generator is created
generator.blueprint = "aaaa";
newID = generator.generate();
 
// Placeing a ! will now select from the given string
generator.specifiers["!"] = ".!><?";
generator.blueprint = "!!!";
newID = generator.generate();
 

By default the specifiers are:

  "A":"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",
  "a":"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
  "0":"0123456789"