nanoid

[steida]

🚀 Feature request

I suppose nanoid is the state of art of client id generation.

[gcanti]

@steida not sure what are you requesting?

[DenisFrezzato]

I guess he's asking for a nanoid branded type, as there is one for UUID.

[gcanti]

@DenisFrezzato looks like nanoid is a generation tool, not a validator, how is relevant to this library?

[DenisFrezzato]

nanoid is an ID generation tool, as UUID is, so I'm guessing he's asking for a codec for nanoid IDs, like there is one for UUID.

[steida]

NanoID branded type plus smart constructor example with recommended usage for beginners, maybe.

interface NanoIDBrand {
  readonly NanoID: unique symbol;
}
export const NanoID = t.brand(
  t.string,
  (s): s is t.Branded<string, NanoIDBrand> => s.length <= 21, // regex would be better
  'NanoID',
);
export type NanoID = t.TypeOf<typeof NanoID>;

import nanoid from 'nanoid';
import { NanoID } from '../types';

export const createNanoID = () => NanoID.decode(nanoid());