How to generate short uid like “aX4j9Z” (in JS)

Question

For my web application (in JavaScript) I want to generate short guids (for different objects - that are actually different types - strings and arrays of strings)

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Answer 1

var letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
var numbers = '1234567890';
var charset = letters + letters.toUpperCase() + numbers;

function randomElement(array) {
    with (Math)
        return array[floor(random()*array.length)];
}

function randomString(length) {
    var R = '';
    for(var i=0; i