Cryptographic Random String

Library to create cryptographically random strings.

Install

npm i @sidoshi/random-string

Usage

import { randomstring, charsets } from '@sidoshi/random-string';

// => Alphanumeric string of length 32
console.log(randomstring());

// => Alphanumeric string of length 10
console.log(randomstring(10));

// => Alphabetic string of length 32
console.log(randomstring({ characters: charsets.alphabetic }));

// => Numeric string of length 10
console.log(randomstring({ characters: charsets.numeric, length: 10 }));

// => String of length 50 with custom character set
console.log(
  randomstring({ characters: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567', length: 50 })
);

// => Composing predefined charsets
console.log(
  randomstring({ characters: charsets.numeric + charsets.symbols, length: 50 })
);

API

• charsets - Predefined character sets
  • alphanumeric
  • alphabetic
  • loweralpha
  • upperalpha
  • numeric
  • hex
  • symbols

• randomstring(size?) - Generate a random string of given size. (default: 30)

• randomstring(options?) - Generate a random string using given options
  • length - Length of the specified string. (default: 30)
  • characters - Character set to use to generate string (default: charsets.alphanumeric). Can be one of the predifined charsets or a custom string. Throws if characters.length > 65536.

Licence

MIT © Siddharth Doshi