nanoid
A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript (by ai)
matcher
Simple wildcard matching (by sindresorhus)
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| nanoid | matcher | |
|---|---|---|
| 87 | - | |
| 25,841 | 540 | |
| 0.7% | 0.6% | |
| 8.6 | 3.2 | |
| 3 months ago | almost 4 years ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nanoid
Posts with mentions or reviews of nanoid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-18.
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FastAPI in Prod: Handling DB migrations, auth, and more
nanoid – A library for generating short, unique IDs (like NxWDZ-j95C).
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Using the built-in SQLite module in Node.js
The demo application we’re going to build in the following sections is a to-do app with a REST API backend that allows multiple users to log in. It also allows those users to create, check, and delete their to-dos. Apart from the Node.js runtime, this project will use Express.js for the server, bcrypt to hash passwords, and nanoid to generate random IDs.
- TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
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Mastering Real-Time Collaboration: Building Figma and Miro-Inspired Features with Supabase
CURRENT_CLIENT_ID is the random unique string Id generated by nanoid that gets generated whenever the client is opened on the brower’s tab.
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Next.js and Bunny CDN: Complete Guide to Image Uploading with Server Actions
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:
- Nano ID Collision Calculator
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Why we chose Bun
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.
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UUIDv7 is coming in PostgreSQL 17
No thread about UUID is complete without a plug for NanoID! https://github.com/ai/nanoid/blob/main/README.md
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Building a File Storage With Next.js, PostgreSQL, and Minio S3
Generate a unique file name using the nanoid library.
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Building a Multi-Tenant App with FastAPI, SQLModel, and PropelAuth
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?
matcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of matcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning matcher yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nanoid and matcher you can also consider the following projects:
pg_random_id - Provides pseudo-random IDs in Postgresql databases
Table - Formats data into a string table.
Numeral-js - A javascript library for formatting and manipulating numbers.
escape-string-regexp - Escape RegExp special characters
repeating - Repeat a string - fast
StegCloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords 🧙🏻♂️⭐
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