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nanoid

v0.5.0 Growing

A tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for Rust.

MIT Edition 2018
#url#random#uuid#id

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (8.1K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
19.3M
Dependents
8.1K
Releases
8
Size
13KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

1.5M downloads in the last 30 days (49.2K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

8.1K crates depend on nanoid. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

nanoid has only 1 owner despite 8.1K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, nanoid hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 12KB, nanoid is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include mid, lsm-tree, fjall, byteview, holochain. When high-quality crates choose nanoid, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 10/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
46K/day avg-49%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.0
93%
v0.5.0
4%
v0.3.0
2%
v0.2.0
0%
v0.1.3
0%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
8.1K
crates depend on nanoid

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