Top 6 typeid Open-Source Projects

typeid

15 2,744 8.2 Go

Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

Project mention: ULIDs and Primary Keys | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-12

I’ve seen this sort of design referred to as “typed IDs”: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid
Doesn’t use the crockford encoding, but does is another one that minimises confusables.

typeid-js

1 207 5.9 TypeScript

TypeScript implementation of TypeIDs: type-safe, K-sortable, and globally unique identifiers inspired by Stripe IDs

Project mention: Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-30

If you want a type-prefixed UUIDv7 type, I can wholeheartedly recommend TypeID-JS: https://github.com/jetpack-io/typeid-js
Also available for a whole bunch of other languages: https://github.com/jetpack-io/typeid
UUIDv7 is UUIDv4-compatible (i.e. you can put a v7 UUID anywhere a v4 UUID would go, like in Postgres's UUID datatype) and is time-series sortable, so you don't lose that nice lil' benefit of auto-incrementing IDs.
And if you use something like TypeORM to define your entities, you can use a Transformer to save as plain UUIDv7 in the DB (so you can use UUID datatypes, not strings), but deal with them as type-prefixed strings everywhere else:
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typeid-python

1 77 6.6 Python

Python implementation of TypeIDs: type-safe, K-sortable, and globally unique identifiers inspired by Stripe IDs

Project mention: Python implementation of TypeIDs: type-safe, K-sortable, and globally unique identifiers inspired by Stripe IDs | /r/opensource | 2023-07-09

typeid-sql

2 67 5.6 PLpgSQL

SQL implementation TypeIDs: type-safe, K-sortable, and globally unique identifiers inspired by Stripe IDs

Project mention: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-28

The authors have created a specialisation for Postgres that leverages a custom type which is a tuple of type and uuidv7: https://github.com/jetpack-io/typeid-sql/blob/main/sql/typei...
This is more optimal for Postgres while making it slightly more difficult to interop between the db and the language (db driver needs to handle custom types, and you need to inject a custom type converter).
And while there are hacks you can do to make storing uuid-alikes as strings less terrible for db engines, if you want the best performance and smallest space consumption (compressed or not) make sure to use native ID types or convert to BINARY/numeric types.

typeid-ts

1 34 7.4 TypeScript

TypeID UUIDv7 implementation in Typescript (Lib and CLI)

Project mention: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-28

django-spicy-id

2 13 6.7 Python

🌶️ Cool "Stripe-style" self-identifying row IDs for Django. A drop-in replacement AutoField.

Project mention: The UX of UUIDs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-11

Nice list, found a couple projects I hadn't seen before.
My addition for your consideration: https://github.com/mik3y/django-spicy-id

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).