Last updated: Jul 26, 2022
Generate a nanoid with 24 random characters using JavaScript
To generate a random string in JavaScript, we first define a variable with name result
and set its default value to an empty string.
Second, we define a new variable with name chars
that holds all the english alphabets (both lowercase and uppercase) and numbers from 0 to 9.
Third, we loop over the value of chars
variable and use the concatenation and assignment operator to randomly select and store 24 characters in the result
variable.
function nanoid() {
var result = '';
var chars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';
for (let i = 0; i < 24; i++) {
result += chars.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length));
}
return result;
}
You can generate a string of any length by changing the value of temporary variable i
in our for
loop. Also, a more secure nanoid can be generated by either adding a
prefix or including special characters in the string.