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  • Small. 130 bytes (minified and gzipped). No dependencies. Size Limit controls the size.
  • Fast. It is 2 times faster than UUID.
  • Safe. It uses a hardware random generator. Can be used in clusters.
  • Short IDs. It uses a larger alphabet than UUID (A-Za-z0-9_-). So, ID size was reduced from 36 to 21 symbols.
  • Portable. Nano ID was ported to 20 programming languages.
import { nanoid } from 'nanoid'
model.id = nanoid() //=> "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT"

Supports modern browsers, IE with Babel, Node.js, and React Native.

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