30-seconds-of-code/snippets/UUIDGeneratorBrowser.md

title, tags

title	tags
UUIDGeneratorBrowser	browser,random,intermediate

Generates a UUID in a browser.

• Use crypto API to generate a UUID, compliant with RFC4122 version 4.

const UUIDGeneratorBrowser = () =>
  ([1e7] + -1e3 + -4e3 + -8e3 + -1e11).replace(/[018]/g, c =>
    (c ^ (crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(1))[0] & (15 >> (c / 4)))).toString(16)
  );

UUIDGeneratorBrowser(); // '7982fcfe-5721-4632-bede-6000885be57d'