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NanoID - Alternative To UUID

Bibek on May 23, 2021

Hey coders đź‘‹ If you are a JavaScript developer, I am pretty much sure that you have used the npm package UUID at least once in your development jo...
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Peter Franken • • Edited

FYI A UUID method was added to NodeJS' core crypto module in v15.6.0. So it's not available in the current LTS, but v16 takes over that role come October.

New method's docs: nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_...

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Bibek •

Hey, thank you for sharing that.

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Nikita Galkin •

Hi, Bibek.

There is my benchmarking test crypto.randomUUID is three times faster uuid.v4. I hope you can use it as idea for your testings.

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Ian Wijma •

That's actually quite interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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Bibek •

Hey Galkin, thank you for sharing that.

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Brian Lloyd-Newberry •

I use nanoid for anywhere I want identifiers that can easily be used in uris, especially ones that humans see. I've a postgresql UDF implementation that I can post about.

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Bibek •

Yeah. That would be great.

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Adithya Sreyaj •

Have been using it for a while now. Great little library 🔥

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Bibek •

Yup. Very useful and reliable.

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Senthil Muthuvel •

It would be great to compare Node.js Crypto module's UUID vs NanoID performance.

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Bibek •

Hey, thank you for the suggestion. I will definitely try to do that.

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Kinanee Samson •

hate generating user id's, we already have to cope with naming things

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Bibek •

Haha :-D

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Pankaj Tanwar •

Good stuff. Would you mind elaborating more details of why exactly nanoID is faster then UUID? What architectural changes helped nanoID improve it's speed?

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Bibek •

Hey, I haven't done any in-depth research on both the packages, it's just the practical implementation. But as per NanoID's documentation, they are managing the memory in a better way, which makes them faster than UUID. You can check their benchmarks or you can test it by yourself too.

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Divyaksh •

This is nice and I will definitely use it my custom blog / portfolio project

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Bibek •

I'm glad you liked it.

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jamartinez98 •

test

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kitkatkitt •

Thanks for sharing this, it really helped me out!

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Bibek •

Thank you for your comment.