How to generate unique ID with node.js

Question

function generate(count) {
    var founded = false,
        _sym = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890',
        str = '';
    while(!founded) {
        for(var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
            str += _sym[parseInt(Math.random() * (_sym.length))];
        }
        base.getID(string, function(err, res) {
            if(!res.length) {
                founded = true; // How to do it?
            }
        });
    }
    return str;
}

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Answer 1

Install NPM uuid package (sources: https://github.com/kelektiv/node-uuid):

npm install uuid

and use it in your code:

var uuid = require('uuid');

Then create some ids ...

// Generate a v1 (time-based) id
uuid.v1(); // -> '6c84fb90-12c4-11e1-840d-7b25c5ee775a'

// Generate a v4 (random) id
uuid.v4(); // -> '110ec58a-a0f2-4ac4-8393-c866d813b8d1'

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** UPDATE 3.1.0
The above usage is deprecated, so use this package like this:

const uuidv1 = require('uuid/v1');
uuidv1(); // -> '6c84fb90-12c4-11e1-840d-7b25c5ee775a' 

const uuidv4 = require('uuid/v4');
uuidv4(); // -> '110ec58a-a0f2-4ac4-8393-c866d813b8d1' 

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** UPDATE 7.x
And now the above usage is deprecated as well, so use this package like this:

const { 
  v1: uuidv1,
  v4: uuidv4,
} = require('uuid');

uuidv1(); // -> '6c84fb90-12c4-11e1-840d-7b25c5ee775a' 
uuidv4(); // -> '110ec58a-a0f2-4ac4-8393-c866d813b8d1'