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Awesome Unique ID Awesome All Contributors

A curated list of awesome Unique ID libraries and resources.

Unique identifiers are used everywhere. This list contains awesome projects you can use that generate IDs or hash them for security.

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Generation

Polyglot

JavaScript

  • uuid (npm) - Simple, fast generation of RFC4122 UUIDS.
  • ulid (npm) - Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier.
  • cuid2 (npm) - Secure, collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance. Next generation uuids.
  • nanoid (npm) - A tiny, secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator for JavaScript.
  • crypto-random-string (npm) - Generate a cryptographically strong random string.
  • yeast (npm) - Yeast is a unique id generator.
  • shortid (npm) - Amazingly short non-sequential url-friendly unique id generator.
  • lodash.uniqueid (npm) - The lodash method uniqueId exported as a Node.js module.
  • uniqid (npm) - A Unique Hexatridecimal ID generator.
  • puid (npm) - Generate a unique ID depending on time, machine and process for use in a distributed environment.
  • flake-idgen (npm) - Flake ID generator yields k-ordered, conflict-free ids in a distributed environment.
  • get-uid (npm) - Simple random id generator.
  • uniqueid (npm) - Generate sequential IDs, with optional prefix or suffix.
  • hyperid (npm) - Uber-fast unique id generation, for Node.js and the browser.
  • uid (npm) - Generate unique ids of any length.
  • uid-safe (npm) - URL and cookie safe UIDs.
  • uuid-readable (npm) - Generate Easy to Remember, Readable UUIDs, that are Shakespearean and Grammatically Correct Sentences.
  • human-id (npm) - Generates human-readable identifier strings by chaining common (short) words of the English language.
  • unique-sequence (npm) - Generate short sequential strings.
  • breezeid (npm) - Easily generate unique, human-first IDs
  • Sqids (npm) - Sqids is a small JavaScript library to generate YouTube-like ids from numbers.
  • ksuid (npm) - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs

Python

Go

  • xid - Xid is a globally unique id generator thought for the web.
  • ksuid - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs.

Hash

Research

Contributors

tzwel
tzwel

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Kayomarz
Kayomarz

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Matthias Esterl
Matthias Esterl

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Peter Cotton
Peter Cotton

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Amit Nambiar
Amit Nambiar

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Cuong Nguyen
Cuong Nguyen

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