nanoid VS activepieces

Last thing left is to use our new upload function in our server action. Since I like to upload images in single format and have some more control over them, I will additionally use sharp library. For file name, I'll generate some random string using nanoid:

Our API is in node. And God, how I suffered to import nanoid in an esmodule project. I had to vendor it, since using a previous version was not ideal. With bun, we can no longer worry about that. Just import what you need and done.

No thread about UUID is complete without a plug for NanoID! https://github.com/ai/nanoid/blob/main/README.md

Generate a unique file name using the nanoid library.

The syntax should read similar to SQL itself. We’re using a Python port of nanoid to generate our IDs. There’s only one thing missing… how do we actually create the table?

I usually go for Nano Id for new projects https://github.com/ai/nanoid

Nano ID

In another comment I mentioned I use nanoid in my projects now. It has a default space of 64^21 and has an a page where you can play with key lengths and alphabet sizes and see the probability of collisions :

https://zelark.github.io/nano-id-cc/

At the default 64 character alphabet with a 21 character key length it would take ~41 million years in order to have a 1% probability of at least one collision if you generated 1000 ids per second.

Using randomly generated IDs like Nano ID could be a good alternative, however, as a developer, we must understand what Nano ID really does in our application. Defining the number of characters in the generated IDs is also important, to help with that Nano ID has a Collision Calculator to give us how many years in order to have a 1% probability of collision.

Activepieces - Build automation flows to connect several apps together in your app's backend. For example, send a Slack message or add a Google Sheet row when an event fires in your app. Free up to 5,000 tasks per month.

As per its description on github: N8n is a Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool.

Not really OSS.

Check out: https://www.activepieces.com/

MIT open source.

There's also https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill and https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces depending on which parts of retool and tooljet you care about.

I wonder how cptn compares with ActivePieces. AP's been declared the "Open Source Zapier" and I have been having a blast with it.

https://www.activepieces.com/pieces

https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces

There is an issue about this on our GitHub, you can comment on it with your specific use case to give it a push up, our piece building roadmap changes upon demand from users: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/issues/670

I use n8n to handle simple automations like this - and currently testing Activepieces too.

It was requested by someone, I'll appreciate it if you put some emphasis on the GitHub issue here: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/issues/438