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Proposal for JavaScript GUID
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guid.js
// http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-UUIDs--p33511279.html
(~~(Math.random() * 1e9)).toString(36) + Date.now()
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No trust Math.random...

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medikoo commented Mar 18, 2012

Yes, this is the reason Date.now is there ;-)

Bulletproof version woud also need to check if given id was not already created and if so, increment result of Date.now

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medikoo commented Mar 18, 2012

What I'm really using is that: https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/blob/master/lib/guid.js
it's good enough

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