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ulid

8.7 4.1 nanoid VS ulid

Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Go
xid

8.7 4.9 nanoid VS xid

xid is a globally unique id generator thought for the web

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sno

3.6 0.0 nanoid VS sno

Compact, sortable and fast unique IDs with embedded metadata.
gouid

1.9 0.0 nanoid VS gouid

Fast, dependable universally unique ids
Monoton

1.8 0.0 nanoid VS Monoton

Highly scalable, single/multi node, sortable, predictable and incremental unique id generator with zero allocation magic on the sequential generation
goflake

1.1 0.3 nanoid VS goflake

A highly scalable and serverless unique ID generator for use in distributed systems. Written in GoLang. Inspired by Twitters Snowflake.
uniq

- nanoid VS uniq

No hassle safe, fast unique identifiers with commands.

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Nano ID

A tiny and fast Go unique string generator

Safe. It uses cryptographically strong random APIs and tests distribution of symbols.
Compact. It uses a larger alphabet than UUID (A-Za-z0-9_-). So ID size was reduced from 36 to 21 symbols.

id, err := nanoid.New() //> "i25_rX9zwDdDn7Sg-ZoaH"
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalln(err)
}

Installation

Once Go is installed, run the following command to get Nano ID.

go get github.com/aidarkhanov/nanoid/v2

Documentation

The package reference is located at pkg.go.dev/github.com/aidarkhanov/nanoid/v2.

Roadmap

The API of this package is frozen.
Release patches if necessary.

License

This package is provided under MIT/Expat license. See LICENSE.md file for details.

Thanks to

Andrey Sitnik for the original JavaScript algorithm implementation.
Paul Yuan for letting me improve the Python version of the library. Without the previous work, I would not be able to fully understand the algorithm.

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the nanoid README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.