ZUID - Compact UUID representation based on Crockford's Base 32

Sometimes it's necessary to represent UUID in a more compact way: to make URL shorter or to show it with smaller QR code.

This package formats it as 26 chars string.

There are number of benefits from such representation:

1. Shorter! 26 chars vs 36 chars
2. Easy to dictate - Case insensitive, similar looking chars: 0-O and 1-i-l are treated in same way
3. URL-safe
4. Works with node/browser and ts/js
5. No dependencies

Installation

To use with your project

npm install zuid --save

or

yarn add zuid

Usage

import { encode, decode } from 'zuid';

console.log(encode('8affb7d3-f2e7-4053-8cf8-2da9f80964c3'));
// 8nzxqtfseeg2k8sy1dn7w0js63

console.log(decode('8nzxqtfseeg2k8sy1dn7w0js63'));
// 8affb7d3-f2e7-4053-8cf8-2da9f80964c3

Notes

It encodes UUIDs as Crockford's Base 32. Chars at positions 0 and 13 are hex values (similar to this package).