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

The npm module anyid provides flexible API to generate various kinds of string ID / code.

To generate random string in A-Za-z0-9 using 48 random bytes:

const id = anyid().encode('Aa0').bits(48 * 8).random().id();
// G4NtiI9OYbSgVl3EAkkoxHKyxBAWzcTI7aH13yIUNggIaNqPQoSS7SpcalIqX0qGZ

To generate fixed length alphabet only string filled by random bytes:

const id = anyid().encode('Aa').length(20).random().id();
// qgQBBtDwGMuFHXeoVLpt

Internally it uses crypto.randomBytes() to generate random.