isabella232 / uid-promise

Creates a cryptographically strong UID

uid-promise

Creates a cryptographically secure UID with a 62 character range that can be safely used in URLs.

Usage

Firstly, install the package from npm:

npm install --save uid-promise

Then load it:

const uid = require('uid-promise')

Finally, call it:

await uid(20)

API

uid(Number len) => Promise

• Return a Promise that resolves with a string of random characters of length len
• len must always be provided, else the promise is rejected
• Under the hood, crypto.randomBytes is used
• Character set: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

Authors

• Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) - ▲ZEIT
• Leo Lamprecht (@notquiteleo) - ▲ZEIT