SnowflakeGenerator

Twitter snowflake generator in pure javascript.

Tutorial

1. Create a new SnowflakeGenerator object
2. Call id to generate a new id

const snowflakeGenerator = new SnowflakeGenerator();

snowflakeGenerator.id; // New generated snowflake
snowflakeGenerator.id; // New generated snowflake. Different to the snowflake that got generated before

Docs

Key	Type	Required	Default	Description
epoch	bigint	no	1609459201000n	The epoch that indicates the start of the snowflakes timestamp
worker	bigint	no	1n	The worker's id. The ID of the datacenter or server can be used as well
process	bigint	no	1n	The process id.
accumulator	bigint	no	0n	The increment id or accumulator that indicates the snowflake's id from their respectiv process, worker and epoch

Properties

.id

Get one new generated snowflake

Returns: string

Example:

const snowflake = snowflakeGenerator.id;

Methods

.next([amount])

Generate 1 or more snowflakes

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
amount	number	no	1	The amount of snowflakes you want to generate

Returns: Array<string> | string

Example:

const snowflake = snowflakeGenerator.next();

.generateId()

Generate a new snowflake as a bigint

Returns: bigint

Example:

const snowflake = snowflakeGenerator.generateId();