charlesdaniel / node-libuuid

Working C uuid_generate implementation for node.js

node-libuuid

Description

A node C binding to the libuuid library's uuid_generate(). NOTE: The uuid returned is lowercased.

Prerequisites

You must have libuuid installed on your machine. In Ubuntu: apt-get install uuid-dev

Install

npm install libuuid

Usage

var libuuid = require('libuuid');
var uuid_val = libuuid.create();
console.log(" UUID = ", uuid_val);

// If you want to use libuuid as a drop in replacement for node-uuid then simply do
var uuid = require('libuuid').create;
var uuid_val = uuid();
console.log(" UUID = ", uuid_val);