gen-cuid2

A simple CLI tool to generate CUID2 IDs of customizable length.

🚀 Features

• Generates one or more CUID2 IDs.
• Customize the number of IDs and the length of each ID.
• Works cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows).

📦 Installation

✅ From npm (recommended)

Install globally from npm:

sudo npm install -g gen-cuid2

Then use it:

gen-cuid2

⚙️ From source (for development / custom builds)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/cblauvelt/gen-cuid2.git
cd gen-cuid2

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

# Install globally
sudo npm install -g .

💻 Usage

Generate a single CUID2 (default)

gen-cuid2

Generate multiple CUID2s

gen-cuid2 --count 5

or

gen-cuid2 -c 5

Specify the length of the IDs

gen-cuid2 --length 32

or

gen-cuid2 -l 32

Combine options

gen-cuid2 --count 3 --length 40

🛠️ Development

To run tests:

npm run build
npm test

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🐛 Issues

Found a bug? Please open an issue here: https://github.com/cblauvelt/gen-cuid2/issues

🌐 Links

• NPM package (coming soon)
• GitHub repository

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to open a pull request or an issue.

Maintainer: Christopher Blauvelt