very unique identifiers

This module exports a tiny (144B) function that generates UUIDv4 compliant identifiers in the browser. It takes advantages of and relies on the browsers built in crypto API namely the getRandomValues function. This offers a better level of randomness than Math.random but means will not work in a node environment.

For all practical purposes the generated identifiers can be considered universally unique. The chance of two ever colliding is 1 in 5,316,911,983,139,663,491,615,228,241,121,378,304. Which is a pretty cool guarantee.

For a history on the conception and evolution of this solution:

• There is this stackoverflow answer by Robert Kieffer.
• There is this gist by Jed Schmidt.

You can install the package from npm and load it from node_modules.

import vuid from 'vuid'

Or import it directly from unpkg in a script tag where type="module".

import vuid from 'https://unpkg.com/vuid'

Call the imported function.

vuid() // 6dfc8a40-2d34-45b5-b3ab-aaf168e71aed