uuid VS nanoid

Compare uuid vs nanoid and see what are their differences.

uuid

Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript (by uuidjs)

nanoid

A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript (by ai)
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uuid nanoid
19 82
14,144 22,950
0.8% -
6.4 8.3
6 months ago 18 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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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.
  • 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:
  • Introduction to typescript with React
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2021
    Let's get back to the uuid package. uuid package is not written in typescript. However, there is a @types/uuid package for it. The package is installed using npm install --save-dev @types/uuid. This way when we assign an uuid to a todo's id, typescript knows, we are assigning a string to id.

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 2024-02-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing uuid and nanoid 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.

ksuid - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs

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

ksuid - Java implementation of K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs

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.

typedorm - Strongly typed ORM for DynamoDB - Built with the single-table-design pattern in mind.

pg_random_id - Provides pseudo-random IDs in Postgresql databases

jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.

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

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