The UUID identifier has been used in programming since the days a baby-faced David Walsh became a professional software engineer. My first exposure to

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The UUID identifier has been used in programming since the days a baby-faced David Walsh became a professional software engineer. JavaScript has the ability to create UUIDs.Developers can use the native JavaScript crypto library to generate a UUID. How to Create a Uuid in JavaScript by using the crypto library.

How to Create a UUID in JavaScript

no more <code>yarn add uuid</code>

The article should have included ‘node’ or ‘v8’ in the title.

UUIDs are important for some applications, but many applications need a way to generate deterministic UUID based on some data.
From the article is not clear that is possible without using an external library, and only using the native crypto API.

I came across this awesome package to generate small unique id’s
<a href="https://github.com/ai/nanoid" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://github.com/ai/nanoid</a> (supports client)
and it has a collision calculator
<a href="https://zelark.github.io/nano-id-cc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://zelark.github.io/nano-id-cc/</a>