A urlsafe base64 random uuid generator for Node.js.
A universally unique identifier (uuid) is a number. Its is typically represented as a 36-character hex string which takes the form xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.
However, by saving the uuid in base64 and by eliminating the padding character =, you can reduce the number of characters from 36 to 22. The result is case sensitive.
This will be useful if you need to create unique urls such as example.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
To make the result url-safe, + and / characters will be converted to - and . respectively. For more information, please see this article.
- Download the code.
cdto the repository.npm install.
See example.js.