Awesome Unique ID

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 then for security.

Inspired by the awesome list.

• Generation
• Hash

Generation

• 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.
• unique-string (npm) - Generate a unique random string.
• 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 an 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.
• muid generates id's whose hashes are, in part, memorable. See video explanation
• 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.
• short-uuid (npm) - Generate and translate standard UUIDs into shorter - or just different - formats and back.
• ObjectId (github) - MongoDBs ObjectId
• thinid (npm) - Easy way to create unique ids.
• uuid-readable (npm) - Generate Easy to Remember, Readable UUIDs, that are Shakespearean and Gramatically Correct Sentences.
• human-readable-ids (npm) - Use JavaScript to generate human-readable ids from a list of nouns and adjectives.
• ksuid (npm) - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs.
• xid (Go) - xid is a globally unique id generator thought for the web.
• unique-sequence (npm) - Generate short sequential strings.

Hash

• Hashids (npm) - Hashids is small JavaScript library to generate YouTube-like ids from numbers.
• RoboHash (github) - Generate unique images from any text.

License

To the extent possible under law, Grant Carthew has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.