nanoid
A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript (by ai)
pg_random_id
Provides pseudo-random IDs in Postgresql databases (by conjurinc)
| nanoid | pg_random_id | |
|---|---|---|
| 85 | 1 | |
| 24,315 | 5 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 15 days ago | over 4 years ago | |
| JavaScript | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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 2024-08-25.
- 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?
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You Don't Need UUID
I usually go for Nano Id for new projects https://github.com/ai/nanoid
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Enhance Your Web Apps: Best JS Libraries 🔧
Nano ID
pg_random_id
Posts with mentions or reviews of pg_random_id.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-11.
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So Clubhouse violated one fundamental concept of API architecture. That not to expose numerically incrementing unique identifiers.
Or, my favorite - https://github.com/conjurinc/pg_random_id - map integer keys to a different, apparently random id using a Feistel cypher
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nanoid and pg_random_id you can also consider the following projects:
snowflake - Snowflake is a network service for generating unique ID numbers at high scale with some simple guarantees.
hscuid - Collision-resistant IDs for horizontal scaling
ksuid - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs
typedorm - Strongly typed ORM for DynamoDB - Built with the single-table-design pattern in mind.
jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.
Numeral-js - A javascript library for formatting and manipulating numbers.
Strapi - 🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
repeating - Repeat a string - fast
matcher - Simple wildcard matching
effector-react - Business logic with ease ☄️
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