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A ULID sorts by creation time. The same site also covers UUID, NanoID, CUID, Snowflake, tokens and JSON.
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Why ULID is better than UUID in many situations?
Time Sortable
The first 10 characters encode a millisecond timestamp, so it sorts by time
Crockford's Base32
More efficient encoding, case insensitive, no special characters
Monotonicity Option
Can generate monotonically increasing values for the same timestamp
Human Readable
Easier to debug and read in logs and databases
UUID v4 has no time order
A random UUID v4 does not encode a timestamp. UUID v7 does
Hex Encoding
Less efficient, requires more characters for same information
No Monotonicity
No built-in mechanism for monotonically increasing values
Less Readable
Harder to distinguish and identify in logs and databases
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Here are some code examples to help you get started
// Node.js / Browser
// Installation: npm install @ulid/javascript
import { ulid } from '@ulid/javascript';
// Generate a new ULID
const myUlid = ulid(); // "01F8MECHZX3TBDSZ7XR8H8J1R4"
// Create ULID with custom timestamp (milliseconds)
const customTimestamp = 1616239022000;
const ulidWithCustomTime = ulid(customTimestamp);
// Create monotonically increasing ULIDs (for multiple IDs in the same ms)
import { monotonicFactory } from '@ulid/javascript';
const monotonic = monotonicFactory();
const ulid1 = monotonic(); // "01F8MECHZX3TBDSZ7XR8H8J1R4"
const ulid2 = monotonic(); // "01F8MECHZX3TBDSZ7XR8H8J1R5" (incremented)
// Extract timestamp from ULID
const timestamp = ulid.decode(myUlid).time;
console.log(new Date(timestamp).toISOString());JavaScript:npm install @ulid/javascript
A ULID is 26 Crockford Base32 characters. The first 10 encode a millisecond timestamp, so a later ID sorts after an earlier one. A random UUID v4 is 36 characters and has no time order. This site can also generate UUID v7, which does include a timestamp.
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