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

You can use the md5 algorithm for generating a random string. md5 is the node package

 var randomChars = Math.random().toString(36).replace(/[^a-z]+/g, '').substr(0, 2);
 var shortUrl = md5(originalUrl + randomChars + new Date()).substring(0, 5).toString();
 console.log(shortUrl);

This will generate unique string every time.