| [6a3a178] | 1 | # Nano ID
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| 3 | <img src="https://ai.github.io/nanoid/logo.svg" align="right"
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| 4 | alt="Nano ID logo by Anton Lovchikov" width="180" height="94">
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| 6 | **English** | [Русский](./README.ru.md) | [简体中文](./README.zh-CN.md)
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| 7 |
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| 8 | A tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | > “An amazing level of senseless perfectionism,
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| 11 | > which is simply impossible not to respect.”
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| [e29cc2e] | 13 | * **Small.** 130 bytes (minified and gzipped). No dependencies.
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| [6a3a178] | 14 | [Size Limit] controls the size.
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| 15 | * **Fast.** It is 2 times faster than UUID.
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| 16 | * **Safe.** It uses hardware random generator. Can be used in clusters.
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| 17 | * **Short IDs.** It uses a larger alphabet than UUID (`A-Za-z0-9_-`).
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| 18 | So ID size was reduced from 36 to 21 symbols.
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| 19 | * **Portable.** Nano ID was ported
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| 20 | to [19 programming languages](#other-programming-languages).
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| 21 |
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| 22 | ```js
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| 23 | import { nanoid } from 'nanoid'
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| 24 | model.id = nanoid() //=> "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT"
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| 25 | ```
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| 27 | Supports modern browsers, IE [with Babel], Node.js and React Native.
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| 29 | [online tool]: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/ai/nanoid/
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| 30 | [with Babel]: https://developer.epages.com/blog/coding/how-to-transpile-node-modules-with-babel-and-webpack-in-a-monorepo/
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| 31 | [Size Limit]: https://github.com/ai/size-limit
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <a href="https://evilmartians.com/?utm_source=nanoid">
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| 34 | <img src="https://evilmartians.com/badges/sponsored-by-evil-martians.svg"
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| 35 | alt="Sponsored by Evil Martians" width="236" height="54">
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| 36 | </a>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | ## Docs
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| 39 | Read **[full docs](https://github.com/ai/nanoid#readme)** on GitHub.
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