How to generate random uuid in Node and Express

In this tutorial you will learn how you can generate random unique IDs(uuid) in node.js

First we will need to install the npm uuid module

npm install --save uuid

To generate random uuid we will use uuid.v4() method

Example

const express = require('express')
const uuid = require('uuid');
const app = express();

const port = 5000;

app.get('/api/random-uuid', async (req, res) => {
  const id = uuid.v4();
  res.send({id});
}

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${port}`)
});

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