How to store UUID as an alphanumeric in nodejs

Question

Node-uuid provides an excellent package to generate uuid

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

However, it does not provide a way to encode it in base64 or alphanumeric string.

Is there an easy way to do this?

It is in hex format. Ideally I would like to keep it a bit shorter — samol, Jul 25 '14 at 02:19

Bulkan · Answer 1 · 2014-07-25T02:24:07.857

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Install;

Then;

var uuid = require('node-uuid');
var base64 = require('urlsafe-base64');

base64.encode(Buffer(uuid.v4()));

edited Jul 25 '14 at 02:24

answered Jul 25 '14 at 02:18

Bulkan

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I believe the buffer base64 is not url safe? – samol Jul 25 '14 at 02:20
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It's not urlsafe, you did not ask for url safe base64. I'll update my answer to reflect – Bulkan Jul 25 '14 at 02:21

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