nanoid-dictionary

Predefined character sets to use with nanoid. Used by nanoid-generate.

A fork of CyberAP/nanoid-dictionary.

Install

Install nanoid and dictionary

npm i @nichoth/nanoid @nichoth/nanoid-dictionary

Usage

Require a customAlphabet from nanoid and pass a string from the dictionary:

1import { customAlphabet } from '@nichoth/nanoid';
2import { lowercase } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';
3
4const lowercaseRandomString = customAlphabet(lowercase, 10);

Character sets

numbers

Numbers from 0 to 9

1import { numbers } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';

hexadecimalLowercase

Lowercase English hexadecimal lowercase characters: 0123456789abcdef

1import { hexadecimalLowercase } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';

hexadecimalUppercase

Lowercase English hexadecimal uppercase characters: 0123456789ABCDEF

1import { hexadecimalUppercase } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';

lowercase

Lowercase English letters: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

1import { lowercase } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';

uppercase

Uppercase English letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

1import { uppercase } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';

alphanumeric

Combination of all the lowercase, uppercase characters and numbers from 0 to 9

Does not include any symbols or special characters

1import { alphanumeric } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';

nolookalikes

Numbers and english alphabet without lookalikes: 1, l, I, 0, O, o, u, v, 5, S, s, 2, Z.

Complete set: 346789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRTUVWXYabcdefghijkmnpqrtwxyz

1import { nolookalikes } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';

nolookalikesSafe

Same as nolookalikes but with removed vowels and following letters: 3, 4, x, X, V.

This list should protect you from accidentally getting obscene words in generated strings.

Complete set: 6789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRTWbcdfghjkmnpqrtwz

1import { nolookalikesSafe } from '@nichoth/nanoid-dictionary';