Module uuid provides low level API for generating / parsing UUID, that may be necessary when hacking on internals of the platform.

Generate UUID

Module exports uuid function. When called without arguments it will uses platform-specific methods to obtain a nsID that can be considered to be globally unique.

Parsing UUID

Sometimes one might need to create nsID from an existing UUID string. Same uuid function may be used to parse such UUID strings into an nsID:

For more details about UUID representations and what they are used for by the platform see MDN documentation for JSID