monkey-typewriter

Randomly generated words and slugs that look and sound like english words.

Infinite monkey theorem

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

^^ Totally a real thing!

Demo

Check out the live backend express example deployed on cyclic >> DEMO

The Monkey

Using some basic rules and probabilities in english vocabulary allows the Monkey to be really small! A unique and readable word accommodates most use-cases like id and slug generation. These often rely on much larger and sometimes unnecessary packages.

• monkey-typewriter: 5.22 kB
• random-word-slugs: 186.22 kB
• faker: 10.1 MB thats over 2000 times bigger!

The Monkey comes up with words that look and sound like english words:

telebo
kuokesque
taity
nonfees
intave
exlission
unnoful
dengothal

Installation

npm i monkey-typewriter

Include as:

const Monkey = require('monkey-typewriter')

or

import * as Monkey from 'monkey-typewriter'

Usage

The Monkey has two methods right now, word and slug. Both produce unique strings from millions of possible combinations for a low collision probability.

• word() - generates an english sounding word
• slug(num) - generates kabob-slugs of length num

console.log(Monkey.word())
// > telepop

console.log(Monkey.slug())
// > chush
console.log(Monkey.slug(2))
// > memion-exlifacy
console.log(Monkey.slug(3))
// > confuedible-chored-repup

Contributing:

This package is written vanilla javascript and has no dependencies. We suggest to keep the complexity low to eliminate possible security issues