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short-uuid

Create and translate standard UUIDs with shorter formats.

v6.0.3, 1 Dec 2025MITCommonJSTypes: BundledCryptography and hashing
$ npm install short-uuid
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
446.3k
+31% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
1
Direct, from package.json
Last release
9 months ago
v6.0.3
GitHub stars
522
16 forks
Open issues / PRs
1 / 2
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
15

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
0250k500k750k1mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 981.5k (4 Aug 2026)Low 212.4k (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

446,312 downloads last week, 2,256,441 in the last month. The 12-month change of +31% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
330 in total
Latest version
6.0.3, 1 Dec 20259 months ago
First published
5 Jun 2016
Last push to GitHub
1 Dec 2025297 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
1
Open pull requests
2
Commits, last 52 weeks
15
Dependents on npm
559

Major versions

  1. v6 first release 6.0.0, 30 Nov 2025
  2. v5 first release 5.0.0, 29 Apr 2024
  3. v4 first release 4.0.1, 6 Sept 2020
  4. v3 first release 3.0.0, 24 Mar 2018
  5. v2 first release 2.0.0, 19 Jun 2016
  6. v1 first release 1.0.0, 5 Jun 2016

Recent releases

VersionPublished
6.0.31 Dec 2025
6.0.230 Nov 2025
6.0.030 Nov 2025
5.2.02 May 2024
5.1.01 May 2024
5.0.130 Apr 2024
5.0.029 Apr 2024
4.2.219 Oct 2022
4.2.013 May 2021
4.1.07 Sept 2020
4.0.37 Sept 2020
4.0.27 Sept 2020
4.0.16 Sept 2020
3.1.11 May 2019

Compatibility

Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=14.17.0
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
69 kB
Dependencies (1)
any-base

Install

npm install short-uuid

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/short-uuid@6.0.3/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/short-uuid@6.0.3/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/short-uuid@6.0.3

Alternatives

PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
uuid479.6k-4 years agoESM + CommonJS-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.