Request for Plugin: Nano ID

[Mohammad]

In Maple - recipes | meal-planning | grocery - Showcase - Talk TW (tiddlywiki.org) a plugin called shortid has been used.

ShortId creates amazingly short non-sequential url-friendly unique ids. Perfect for url shorteners, MongoDB and Redis ids, and any other id users might see.

The source of shorid can be found in the GitHub

• ShortID source: dylang/shortid: Short id generator. Url-friendly. Non-predictable. Cluster-compatible. (github.com)
• ShortID TiddlyWiki plugin: reidgould/tiddlywiki-shortid-plugin: A TiddlyWiki plugin that is a bundle of shortid for use as a macro. (github.com)

The author states that shortid is unsafe and instead nanoid is recommended.

NanoID is a tiny (130 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript

• Nano Id Source: ai/nanoid: A tiny (130 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript (github.com)

Our JS knowledgeable fellows may create the nanoid plugin for TW.

Use cases

• Create tiddler title using nano id
• Create states like the one we use with qualify
• …

[pmario]

@Mohammad

Use cases

• Create tiddler title using nano id
• Create states like the one we use with qualify

Creating unique titles will be possible.

but

Replacing the qualify-functionality will be not possible. Qualify creates a reproducible result between different renders. Per definition nanoid creates random numbers they should never be the same twice.

Just a remark

[Mohammad]

Hi Mario,
That’s true! It is not a replacement for qualify and cannot be used dynamically.
But getting a static uuid for a state tiddler or even creating a new tiddler are beneficial!