The uuid npm package is one of the most downloaded libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem. The vast majority of those installs exist for one thing: uuid/v4 , which generates a random unique identifier in the standard xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx format. The browser — and Node.js — have been doing this natively since 2021. No package needed. The native API const id = crypto . randomUUID (); // "110e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000" That's th...