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Very well said. In looking for an id scheme that focuses on unpredictability and readability, rather than on encoding metadata and sortability, I feel I've fin
by mitchtbaum 8y ago
Very well said.
In looking for an id scheme that focuses on unpredictability and readability, rather than on encoding metadata and sortability, I feel I've finally found what will work well:
https://github.com/ai/nanoid https://github.com/ai/nanoid
And others seem to agree (though unimportantly on a different platform): https://www.npmtrends.com/nanoid-vs-shortid-vs-cuid-vs-slugid-vs-short-uuid-vs-ksuid https://www.npmtrends.com/nanoid-vs-shortid-vs-cuid-vs-slugi...
(Found through: https://github.com/grantcarthew/awesome-unique-id https://github.com/grantcarthew/awesome-unique-id)