How to generate short id in Node.js ?

In this article we are going to see how to generate a short id in Node.js. There is an NPM package called ‘shortid’ used to create short non-sequential url-friendly unique ids. By default, it uses 7-14 url-friendly characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _-. It Supports cluster (automatically), custom seeds, custom alphabet. It Can generate any number of ids without duplication.

Setting up of the environment:

• Setting up of the NPM package of the project :

  npm init -y

• Installing Dependencies :

  npm install express shortid

Basic Express server:

index.js

const express = require('express');
const app = express();


app.get('/' , (req , res)=>{
    res.send("GeeksforGeeks");
})

app.listen(4000 , ()=>{
    console.log("server is running on port 4000");
})

Output:

Example: Importing ‘shortid’ into our project, there are lots of features in shortid module.

Syntax:

const short = require('shortid');

server.js

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const short = require('shortid');

app.get('/' , (req , res)=>{
    res.send(short()); // generating short id by calling short() function.
})

app.listen(4000 , ()=>{
    console.log("server is running on port 4000");
})

Output: