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Human-Readable Identifiers

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Using words to identify datasets (instead of numbers) provides various advantages when humans are involved, ie increased distinction and rememberability.

Human-ID generates readable strings by chaining common short words of the english language in a semi-meaningful way. The result is concatenated of adjective + noun + verb resulting in a minimum pool size of 15 000 000 possible combinations.

SFW: no bad words; family friendly results
No dependencies

Examples

FortyGhostsTalk
CalmSnailsDream
TastyRocksSparkle
HealthyCowsSmile
AfraidWallsExist
StrangeCarsRush
TwoLizardsSing
HappyLionsJump

Install

Yarn

yarn add human-id

NPM

npm install human-id

Usage

Command line

npx human-id
# RareGeckosJam

npx human-id lowercase + 2x
# rare+geckos+jam
# healthy+cows+smile

Programmatic

import {humanId, poolSize, minLength, maxLength} from 'human-id'

// RareGeckosJam
humanId()

// Rare~Geckos~Jam
// alias for { separator: '~' }
humanId('~')

// rare-geckos-jam
humanId({
  separator: '-',
  capitalize: false,
})

poolSize()  // 15,000,000
minLength() //          8
maxLength() //         19

Extended Pool Size

For most cases, the default pool size should be large enough. However, the options adjectiveCount and addAdverb can be utilized to increase the pool size for the price of the string length.

const options = {
  adjectiveCount: 2,
  addAdverb: true,
  separator: '.'
}

humanId(options)   // Ten.Wet.Files.Cheer.Lazily
poolSize(options)  // 630,000,000
minLength(options) //          20
maxLength(options) //          41

Executable arguments

Use the following arguments to modify the default options or print multiple results.

Argument	Effect
`a`, `adverb`, `addAdverb`	Sets `option.addAdverb` to `true`
`l`, `lower`, `lowercase`	Sets `option.capitalize` to `false`
`space`	Sets `option.separator` to an empty space
any number	Sets `option.adjectiveCount` to the given integer
any single character	Sets `option.separator` to the character
any number followed by `x`	Repeats the output `number` times

Example

npx human-id adverb lower 2 _ 3x
# clever_shaggy_memes_sit_quietly
# cuddly_spicy_boxes_wave_politely
# sweet_fair_wombats_fetch_bravely

API

`humanId(options?: string | Option): string`

Generates a human ID. Options can be a string (separator), a boolean (capitalize) or an Options object of:

separator string = '' - Separates the words from each other
capitalize boolean = true - Whether to transform the first character of each word to upper case
adjectiveCount number = 1 - How many adjectives to return
addAdverb boolean = false - Adds a fourth part to the id

This function is also available as the default export