Secure random token in Node.js

Question

In this question Erik needs to generate a secure random token in Node.js. There\'s the method crypto.randomBytes that generates a random Buffer. However, the ba

Answer 1

With async/await and promisification.

const crypto = require('crypto')
const randomBytes = Util.promisify(crypto.randomBytes)
const plain = (await randomBytes(24)).toString('base64').replace(/\W/g, '')

Generates something similar to VjocVHdFiz5vGHnlnwqJKN0NdeHcz8eM