nanoid/README.md

A tiny (118 bytes), secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator

# Nano ID

<img src="https://ai.github.io/nanoid/logo.svg" align="right"
     alt="Nano ID logo by Anton Lovchikov" width="180" height="94">

**English** | [日本語](./README.ja.md) | [Русский](./README.ru.md) | [简体中文](./README.zh-CN.md) | [Bahasa Indonesia](./README.id-ID.md) | [한국어](./README.ko.md) | [العربية](./README.ar.md)

A tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript.

> “An amazing level of senseless perfectionism,
> which is simply impossible not to respect.”

- **Small.** 118 bytes (minified and brotlied). No dependencies.
  [Size Limit] controls the size.
- **Fast.** 50% faster than native `crypto.randomUUID()`.
- **Safe.** It uses hardware random generator. Can be used in clusters.
- **Short IDs.** It uses a larger alphabet than UUID (`A-Za-z0-9_-`).
  So ID size was reduced from 36 to 21 symbols.
- **Portable.** Nano ID was ported
  to over [20 programming languages](./README.md#other-programming-languages).

```js
import { nanoid } from 'nanoid'
model.id = nanoid() //=> "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT"
```

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<img src="https://cdn.evilmartians.com/badges/logo-no-label.svg" alt="" width="22" height="16" />  Nano ID is built by <b><a href="https://evilmartians.com/">Evil Martians</a></b>, an American design and engineering consultancy for <b>developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups</b>.

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[Size Limit]: https://github.com/ai/size-limit

## Docs
Read full docs **[here](https://github.com/ai/nanoid#readme)**.