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· igoramadas

This is an overly simple function to generate unique ID's using CoffeeScript based on the current time.

generateId = ->
 chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
 today = new Date()
 result = today.valueOf().toString 16
 result += chars.substr Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length), 1
 result += chars.substr Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length), 1
 return result

The two last random characters are appended to minimize collisions.

I'm using it on Counting.to and on the Zalando System App.

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