@sockety/uuid - fast UUID v4 as buffers and strings

Description

This package is meant to handle UUIDs in the Sockety library. It's ultra-fast, and aims into simple and fast integration with buffers and strings.

Installation

You may install this package from NPM repository, via npm install @sockety/uuid or yarn add @sockety/uuid.

Usage

import { generateUuid, isValidUuidString, isValidUuidBuffer, readUuidToString, readUuid } from '@sockety/uuid';

// Generate new UUID object
const uuidInstance = generateUuid();

// Build string representation
const uuidString = uuidInstance.toString();

// Write it to buffer
const buffer = Buffer.alloc(16);
uuidInstance.write(buffer);

// You may write it in the middle of the buffer too:
// const buffer = Buffer.alloc(36);
// uuidInstance.write(buffer, 10); (10,26)

// Read it from buffer
const uuidInstanceFromBuffer = readUuid(buffer);
const uuidStringFromBuffer = readUuidToString(buffer);

// You may read it from middle of the buffer too:
// const uuidInstanceFromBuffer = readUuid(buffer, 10);
// const uuidStringFromBuffer = readUuidToString(buffer, 10);

// Validate the UUID
isValidUuidString(uuidString); // true
isValidUuidString(uuidStringFromBuffer); // true
isValidUuidBuffer(buffer); // true

// You may validate the UUID in the middle of the buffer too:
// isValidUuidString(uuidStringFromBuffer, 10);

Alternatives

Most of the time you should be fine with native crypto.randomUUID in Node.js.

Unless you're not working with buffers, it may be not worth to use @sockety/uuid as another extra dependency.

This @sockety/uuid package will use only 16 bytes to store UUID, as it's using its binary representation. Using buffer.write(crypto.randomUUID()) will use 36 bytes, as it will store string representation in the buffer.

Benchmarks

Benchmarks ran internally, to compare the difference.

Generally, it has similar speed for generating UUIDs as crypto.randomUUID, but is much faster with handling buffers. Additionally, it's using fewer bytes in the buffer then.

| Description | crypto.randomUUID | @sockety/uuid | |------------------------------------|-----------------------|----------------------------------| | Generate UUID string | 13,787,701 ops/s | 14,285,222 ops/s (0.1x faster) | | Generate UUID buffer | 2,002,230 ops/s | 10,485,028 ops/s (5.2x faster) | | Generate UUID to existing buffer | 2,325,965 ops/s | 20,427,191 ops/s (8.7x faster) | | Read UUID string from buffer | 8,173,617 ops/s | 26,221,765 ops/s (3.2x faster) | | Read UUID string from buffer slice | 5,171,186 ops/s | 29,517,143 ops/s (5.7x faster) |