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Who is using nano-id?
Since new 1.0.0 version is going out soon, I wonder who's using nano-id? So if you use it in prod or just for hobby project, please drop a message below. I'd like to add a list to readme.
Also you might consider to start using it once 1.0.0 is released. ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶
UPD: nano-id 1.0.0 was released. Give it a try.
We're using Datomic which supports a uuid type. We expose this uuid as a public id to some resources. I'd be happy to switch to nano-id if I knew what the lookup cost is, if any, in switching to string comparisons. Honestly, I have no clue how Datomic handles uuid lookups. Perhaps these are string comparisons under the hood too?
@carrete it's a good question, but unfortunately I'm slightly familiar with Datomic. I've just read about its indexing mechanism and I think I can give you a valid answer, but first I'd like to know what UUID generator you use — is it Peer.squuid or true randomUUID?
They recommend to use Peer.squuid because it will give you a better indexing:
https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/identity.html#org09032a7
As I understand, in general, it’s better if you can manage to put monotonically increasing values for unique Identities.
We use randomUUID, though simply out of convenience. There's no reason why we would have to stick with randomUUID.
In that link, I see it says:
Datomic's indexes are optimized to gracefully handle all UUIDs, so Squuids are not strictly necessary. However, you should still prefer Squuids if your ids may ever be indexed in other, non-Datomic systems.
We don't ever plan to index our ids in other, non-Datomic systems. This is not a requirement we have. FYI
Then I think it won't be differ that much. Anyway, I asked the question in slack https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/datomic/2020-05-08/1588924450.320800
I’m using it for a not yet publicly released (I’ll edit this comment with a name/link once its public, if I remember) cryptocurrency trade automation service (a “bring your own signals” hosted trading bot). I use nanoid for generating tokens for any user shareable things and referral tokens, as a more visually compact alternative to UUID’s.
I really like this library, its small, simple and to the point. Thanks for creating it!
Hi there, we're using it on https://paper.li/ . We recently launched a feature allowing users to write their own stories (kind of blog posts), and to uniquely identifies those stories across our system we use nano-id.
Very cool library :+1:
