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uuid-random-es

v2.1.1

Published

Fastest UUIDv4 with good RNG (from Wes Roberts)

Downloads

180

Readme

uuid-random-es

MIT Licence Stable

Generate RFC-4122 compliant random UUIDs (version 4) with better statistical dispersion than Math.random().

Install

npm i uuid-random-es

Or download the latest release.

Features

Compatibility

Compatible with almost all versions of:

  • Node
  • Babel
  • TypeScript
  • Web browsers

Performance

The included benchmark.js as well as independent benchmarks rank this library as the fastest pure JS UUID v4 generator available with cryptographically secure PRNG— almost 20x faster than the most popular library (using latest NodeJS).

| npm package | performance | |-----------------|-----------------| | portable-uuid | 354k ops/sec | | uuid | 474k ops/sec | | id128 | 6.0M ops/sec | | uuid-random (this) | 9.7M ops/sec |

Results above generated on a 4.20GHz Intel i7-7700K with Node v12.18.0

Why use UUID?

Universally Unique IDentifiers transcend many constraints of traditional incremental integer IDs, especially in distributed systems. In UUID version 4, we essentially generate a random 128-bit value.

We do trade guaranteed uniqueness for extremely probable uniqueness (you would need to do-loop uuid() at max speed for 73,067 years for a 50% chance of one collision). But for that slight cost, we may now generate valid, unique, persistent IDs on any node of a distributed system (e.g. intermittently offline or high-latency clients).

Note, if you plan to use UUIDs for a new project, depending on your requirements, you may consider a more recent standard that addresses some of the shortcomings of UUID, such as flake-id, nanoid, cuid, or ulid.

Example Usage

ES

import uuid from 'uuid-random-es';
uuid(); // 'f32dc9ae-7ca8-44ca-8f25-f258f7331c55'

Browser

<script src="uuid-random-es.js"></script>
<script>
  uuid(); // 'b96ab5e6-f1e8-4653-ab08-4dd82ea65778'
</script>

Validate a UUID v4 String

uuid.test('0b99b82f-62cf-4275-88b3-de039020f14e'); // true

Generate Binary UUIDs

uuid.bin(); // <Buffer 41 db 10 54 b3 61 48 50 87 f1 2f 7b 08 a5 0f 06>