⚡ micro-id-generator

A blazing fast, compact, timestamp-based unique ID generator using Base62 encoding and custom epoch.

🚀 Why micro-id-generator?

• 🔥 Ultra-fast and dependency-free
• 🧠 Uses custom epoch + timestamp
• 🔢 Base62 encoded short IDs (e.g., 8AHZkJLvI)
• 📦 Extremely lightweight (~3 KB)
• ✅ Perfect for microservices, logs, databases, and URLs

🧪 Features

• ⏱ Timestamp-based ID generation
• 🧮 Base62 encoding = shorter IDs
• 🛡 Zero dependencies
• 🌍 Collision-resistant in distributed systems
• 🔒 No external dependencies
• 📦 Ultra lightweight
• 🛡 Safe & minimal

Installation

npm install micro-id-generator

generateUniqueId()

Returns a unique Base62 encoded string based on the current timestamp (from custom epoch), a version number, and a random number.

Usage

const { generateUniqueId } = require('micro-id-generator');

const id = generateUniqueId();
console.log(id); // Example output: "1GQ8jAZdPK"