short-uuid VS uuid

Compare short-uuid vs uuid and see what are their differences.

short-uuid

Translate standard UUIDs into shorter formats and back. (by oculus42)

uuid

Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript (by uuidjs)
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short-uuid uuid
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430 14,238
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4.9 6.4
16 days ago 7 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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short-uuid

Posts with mentions or reviews of short-uuid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-21.
  • Moving Away from UUIDs
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2022
    > The dash-separated hexadecimal format takes 36 characters to represent 16 bytes of data.

    You can use a different formatting. I would suggest looking at https://github.com/oculus42/short-uuid Of course if you just want a random ID, then you might not need a UUID. But UUIDs have the advantage that there are different versions and you can distinguish them; e.g. you might want a unique ID that gives you some debugging information (where/when was it created), so you use v1 and later you can decide to switch to v4 if decide you want the IDs to carry no information.

    Indepedent of how you generate the ID, I think the base-57 encoding that shortUUIDs use is quite good when the IDs are user facing. Not using O,0,l,1,I in the alphabet makes IDs more readable.

  • Understanding UUIDs in Node.js
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2022
    Some popular npm packages for generating UUIDs in JavaScript are the uuid and short-uuid packages.

uuid

Posts with mentions or reviews of uuid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-20.
  • Unit Testing Expo Apps With Jest
    7 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2024
    I got this error when using a library with ECMAScript Module (ESM), such as [udid](https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid):
  • [DDD] Tactical Design Patterns Part 3: Presentation/Infrastructure Layer
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Jan 2024
    It has been decided to use uuid Version 4 for all of them. Noteworthy is the CommentId, which serves as the identifier for entities within the boundary, meaning local identifiers. For this case, there is no necessity to use uuid. Evans used positions such as front-left, rear-left, front- right, and rear-right to identify the wheels of a car. However, unlike wheels, no straightforward, real-world, understandable means of identification for CommentId came to my mind, so the uuid framework was adopted as a convenient and easy generation method.
  • 10 Powerful Node.js Libraries Every Developer Should Know About
    10 projects | dev.to | 27 Apr 2023
    9.uuid
  • Exploring the Most Commonly Used Folder Names in Popular NPM Packages
    12 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2023
    .husky: Git hooks are custom scripts that run in response to some event (e.g. before a commit is created), and they can choose to abort that event under certain conditions. One of their main drawbacks though is that they live inside the .git folder, which means they cannot be directly versioned like the rest of the project. This folder is used by the popular Husky package that makes it possible to include Git hooks with your project and it takes care of installing them to their appropriate location so they can be detected by Git. Example from uuid.
  • Understanding UUIDs in Node.js
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2022
    Some popular npm packages for generating UUIDs in JavaScript are the uuid and short-uuid packages.
  • Advice on writing a new JavaScript library in 2022?
    1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 18 Oct 2022
  • How to generate unique "activation codes" with Cloud Functions.
    2 projects | /r/Firebase | 15 Mar 2022
    My first thought is to use something like https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid
  • How I designed an abuse-resistant, fault-tolerant, zero cost, multiplayer online game
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2021
    activePlayers is a map of unique player IDs (determined by clients via uuid to timestamps of when they last made a GET https://farmhand.vercel.app/api/get-market-data?room=global request. Each time the function is invoked, it examines the map to see which timestamps are older than the HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_PERIOD (currently 10 seconds) and deletes any that are expired. This data is returned to the client and also written back to Redis to be persisted across function invocations. This is how the active room participants are tracked.
  • Precaching pages with next-pwa
    4 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2021
    By default Next.js uses nanoid to produce build ids so I used that too. You don't have to use it, there are other options, such as uuid.
  • How to Build a Javascript Chat App
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2021
    You need to include some third-party libraries such as CometChat Widget, Uuid, Validator, Firebase via CDN because you are building the Javascript chat app. Therefore, npm should not be used here. You need to add those libraries for some reasons:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing short-uuid and uuid you can also consider the following projects:

nanoid - A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript

ulid - Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Python 3

spec - The canonical spec for ulid

ksuid - Java implementation of K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs

webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

TypeORM - ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.

expo - An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.

Redis - 🚀 A robust, performance-focused, and full-featured Redis client for Node.js.

simpleflake - Distributed ID generation in python for the lazy.

next-pwa - Zero config PWA plugin for Next.js, with workbox 🧰

cookies - Signed and unsigned cookies based on Keygrip