Supported ID Formats
Nanoids
We use the Nano ID library to generate shorter IDs.
There are two settings for NanoIDs - the dictionary, and the length of generated ID.
Alphanumeric Dictionary
The "alphanumeric" NanoID setting produces IDs using 0-9, A-Z, a-z.
Generate alphanumeric IDs by passing ["alphanumeric", size] as a configuration.
The size can be a number, representing characters generated, or a shortcut can be used:
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"hundreds" -
"thousands" -
"tens_of_thousands" -
"millions" -
"ten_million" -
"billion"
These shortcuts provide a minimum number of IDs that can be generated before there’s a 1% chance of collision.
If you use ["alphanumeric", "hundreds"], you’ll be able to
generate several hundred IDs before reaching that 1% risk.
Safe Dictionary
The "safe" NanoID dictionary restricts the set of alphanumeric characters
to produce IDs that don’t have characters that look alike,
and lacks characters that can easily produce words, to prevent any IDs that might be NSFW.
The safe dictionary requires IDs to be roughly 1-2 characters longer to have about the same collision resistance as the regular alphanumeric options.
As with the "alphanumeric" setting, you must provide the length of ID,
either as a number or by using one of the presets:
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"hundred" -
"thousand" -
"thousands" -
"tens_of_thousands" -
"hundred_thousand" -
"million" -
"millions" -
"fifty_million" -
"hundred_million" -
"billion"