ai/nanoid
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A tiny (118 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript observed · 2026-10-06
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 2
- age_days: 3363
- days_rel: 15
- days_push: 15
- n_releases_24m: 34
Adoption not part of the score
27084 stars · 891 forks observed · 2026-10-06
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Nano ID is a tiny (118 bytes), dependency-free JavaScript library for generating secure, URL-friendly unique string IDs using a hardware random generator. It packs a similar number of random bits to UUID v4 into just 21 characters using a larger alphabet, and is faster than crypto.randomUUID().
Use cases
- generate unique ids for database records
- uuid alternative for javascript
- generate short url-friendly identifiers
- generate random ids in react components
- secure random string generator for node
- generate ids for pouchdb or couchdb documents
When to choose
- you need short, URL-safe unique IDs smaller than UUIDs
- bundle size matters and you want a zero-dependency library
- you need faster ID generation than crypto.randomUUID or uuid v4
- you want customizable alphabet or ID length
When to avoid
- you need sequential or sortable IDs like ULID or snowflake IDs
- you need standardized UUID format for interoperability
- you need cryptographically verifiable or non-random IDs
Facets
library · maturity stable
data-generation cryptography developer-tools web-development browser bun cross-platform id-generator uuid-alternative unique-ids random-string tiny-library zero-dependency algorithms nodejs deno
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ai/nanoid · fetched 2026-10-06 · aa374476690b
- homepage: https://zelark.github.io/nano-id-cc/ · fetched 2026-09-21 · 666380d3ee17
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/nanoid · fetched 2026-09-21 · 7702cc450165
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ai/nanoid | main | 98 |
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