uuid.js

Javascript UUID version 4 generator and parser - string and binary

Wikipedia UUID

• runs in browsers and node.js
• creates and parses uuids as string or binary

Install

• Install with Bower: bower install opusonline-uuid.js.
• Install with npm: npm install opusonline-uuid.js.

Usage

Return a valid v4 UUID.

var id = uuid();
// e.g "6ee65cf0-4fdc-4d33-b78d-d09e1294d80f"

Methods

create

Same as uuid().

var id = uuid.create();

createBinary

Return a v4 UUID as Uint8Array, Buffer or Array.

var bytes = uuid.createBinary();
// e.g. [110, 230, 92, 240, 79, 220, 77, 51, 183, 141, 208, 158, 18, 148, 216, 15]

parse

Parses a v4 UUID from string to binary

var bytes = uuid.parse('6ee65cf0-4fdc-4d33-b78d-d09e1294d80f');
// gives [110, 230, 92, 240, 79, 220, 77, 51, 183, 141, 208, 158, 18, 148, 216, 15]

parseBinary

Parses a v4 UUID from binary to string

var bytes = new Uint8Array([110, 230, 92, 240, 79, 220, 77, 51, 183, 141, 208, 158, 18, 148, 216, 15]);
var id = uuid.parseBinary(bytes);
// gives "6ee65cf0-4fdc-4d33-b78d-d09e1294d80f"