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

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About the project

A tiny URL-friendly unique string ID generator for JavaScript using a hardware random generator. It replaces UUID v4 with shorter (21 chars) and faster identifiers.

Useful for
  • Generate IDs for database records instead of UUID v4
  • Create short identifiers for URLs and links
  • Configure a custom alphabet and ID length via customAlphabet

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

3.4 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 4, 2026, 13:15 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

01530July 7, 2026October 4, 2026

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • 13 stars so far today, about 24 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 1 per day, so that's 16× as much.
  • Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
  • The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
  • GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #16, +34 stars.
  • Recent forks include notable developers: @00200200 (1,963 followers), @bayandin (734 followers).

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Numbers

Total stars
27,029
Today
13 · ≈ 24 by evening
Forks
885
Issues and pull requests
576
Watchers
162
Language
JavaScript
License
MIT
Latest release
3.3.19 · September 10, 2026
Created
August 5, 2017
Last push
September 23, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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