###giffo-id

It's purpose was to allow me to create quality random ID strings. For usage in ID'ing game elements, session IDs and password salts etc.

I wrote this around the end of 2012, it is a buffered random string generator using crypto.randomBytes in nodejs.

Calling randomBytes was over 200 times slower in windows(7) compared to linux at the time (no idea what the difference is now).

#####install

npm install giffo-id 

#####import

var ID = require("giffo-id");

#####Constructor

var id = new ID(bufferSize);

#####or short cut method

var id = require("giffo-id")(bufferSize); 

// the larger the bufferCapacity the less times it will have to reinitialize the buffer.

#####usage id.next(10); // returns a random string of 10 character length

#####API Methods.

.next(length);

returns a random string of characters. if no length param is given the default length 32. It is web url friendly.

.uuid();

returns a version 4 UUID

.base64(length)

returns a random string based on base 64

.base62(length)

to make things web friendly this uses base62

.hex(length)

returns base16

####license MIT