js-id

ID generation for JavaScript & TypeScript applications.

Example Usage:

import { IdRandom, IdDeterministic, IdSortable, utils } from '@matrixai/id';

// Random ids, equivalent to UUIDv4

const randGen = new IdRandom();

const randIds = [...utils.take(randGen, 3)];
console.log(randIds.map((b) => utils.toUUID(b)));

// Deterministic ids, equivalent to UUIDv5

const deteGen = new IdDeterministic({
  namespace: 'foo'
});

const deteId1 = deteGen.get();
const deteId2 = deteGen.get('bar');
const deteId3 = deteGen.get('bar');

console.log(utils.toUUID(deteId1));
console.log(utils.toMultibase(deteId2, 'base32hex'));

// Will be cast to string index
const recordOfDeteIds = {};
recordOfDeteIds[deteId1] = 1;
recordOfDeteIds[deteId2] = 1;
console.log(recordOfDeteIds[deteId1]);

// Can be checked for equality
console.log(deteId2.equals(deteId3));
// Binary string form can be checked for equality
console.log(deteId2.toString() === deteId3.toString());

// Strictly monotonic sortable ids, equivalent to UUIDv7

let lastId = new Uint8Array(
  [
    0x06, 0x16, 0x3e, 0xf5, 0x6d, 0x8d, 0x70, 0x00,
    0x87, 0xc4, 0x65, 0xd5, 0x21, 0x9b, 0x03, 0xd4,
  ]
);

const sortGen = new IdSortable({ lastId });

const sortId1 = sortGen.get();
const sortId2 = sortGen.get();
const sortId3 = sortGen.get();

const sortIds = [
  utils.toBuffer(sortId2),
  utils.toBuffer(sortId3),
  utils.toBuffer(sortId1),
];

sortIds.sort(Buffer.compare);

console.log(sortIds);

// Save the last id to ensure strict monotonicity across process restarts
lastId = sortGen.lastId;

// Ids can also be compared in order
console.log(sortId1 < sortId2);
console.log(sortId2 < sortId3);

Base Encoding and Lexicographic Order

It is important to realise that not all base-encodings preserve lexicographic sort order. The UUID (hex-encoding) and base32hex does, but base58btc and base64 does not. Make sure to pick an appropriate base encoding if you are expecting to compare the IdSortable as base-encoded strings.

Out of all the multibase encodings, the only ones that preserve sort order are:

base2
base8
base16
base16upper
base32hex
base32hexupper
base32hexpad
base32hexpadupper

In addition to this, JS binary string encoding through id.toString() also preserves sort order.

Installation

npm install --save @matrixai/id

Development

Run nix-shell, and once you're inside, you can use:

# install (or reinstall packages from package.json)
npm install
# build the dist
npm run build
# run the repl (this allows you to import from ./src)
npm run ts-node
# run the tests
npm run test
# lint the source code
npm run lint
# automatically fix the source
npm run lintfix

Docs Generation

npm run docs

See the docs at: https://matrixai.github.io/js-id/

Publishing

# npm login
npm version patch # major/minor/patch
npm run build
npm publish --access public
git push
git push --tags