Id length is actually max-length

[icetbr]

Hi, your concern seems to be only with key collisions, which is fine. But I also want (visual) uniformity. I would suggest to make the length the exact same size as requested.

Thanks

[ai]

@icetbr So you have a different ID length on different calls? Can you show how do you use Nano ID?

[icetbr]

Oh, that was unintentional? I will try to find out what's wrong then, because I can't reproduce this locally I ran 1 million calls and all the same length.

I had just changed the code from shortid to nanoid, maybe something got cached or didn't restart properly.

I'll have to wait for my production server to go under intense load again.

To answer your question, I have a utils.js

const nanoid = require('nanoid');

module.exports = {
    shortId() {
        return nanoid(10);
    }
}

[ai]

nanoid(10) will always generate 10 symbols ID
https://github.com/ai/nanoid/blob/master/index.js#L25

I think you had a cache problems