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# Nano ID



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.** 130 bytes (minified and gzipped). No dependencies.
  [Size Limit] controls the size.
* **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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  Made in Evil Martians, product consulting for developer tools.

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[online tool]: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/ai/nanoid/
[with Babel]:  https://developer.epages.com/blog/coding/how-to-transpile-node-modules-with-babel-and-webpack-in-a-monorepo/
[Size Limit]:  https://github.com/ai/size-limit


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