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JavaScript/NodeJS equivalent of PHP's uniqid with a little extra entropy.
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gistfile1.txt
"use strict";
const crypto = require('crypto'),
hash = crypto.createHash('md5');
const uniqid = (prefix = '') => {
return `${prefix}${hash.update(Date.now().toString()).digest('hex')}`;
};
console.log(uniqid('Example_Prefix-')); //Example_Prefix-d6caf083d4676ec0f2cf2a9a3b2b3020
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