# ai/nanoid

> 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.

- Magnitude: 3.5 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 27,031 total · +15 stars today, ≈ 26 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: JavaScript · License: MIT · Created: 2017-08-05 · Last push: 2026-09-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/ai/nanoid · Homepage: https://zelark.github.io/nano-id-cc/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ai/nanoid

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 15 stars so far today, about 26 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 1 per day, so that's 18× 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).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 885
- Issues and pull requests: 576
- Watchers: 162
- Average over the last week: 8 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: 3.3.19 (2026-09-10)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-05 … 2026-10-04: 0, 1, 1, 4, 3, 0, 0, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 4, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 26, 15

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #16, +34 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-04 13:56 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.