ai/nanoid
A tiny (118 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript
27.1k stars · 892 forks · JavaScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 80% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 11
- Human commits, 90 days
- 25
- Human commits, 365 days
- 134
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 1%
- Last commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 8
- Last release
- Oct 5, 2026 (9 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 4 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 4 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 134 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 147
Top committers
- ai: 80% of commits
- mahmoodhamdi: 10% of commits
- saripovdenis: 3% of commits
- 00200200: 1% of commits
- bayandin: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 12, 2017 to Sep 14, 2017: about 553 more stars than usual, peak 349 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Apr 21, 2018 to Apr 23, 2018: about 36 more stars than usual, peak 17 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 17, 2018 to Aug 24, 2018: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 358 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 7, 2019 to Nov 13, 2019: about 185 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 27, 2020 to Apr 1, 2020: about 200 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 30, 2020 to Jun 4, 2020: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 7, 2021 to Nov 8, 2021: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 30, 2022 to Apr 2, 2022: about 117 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 11, 2022 to Aug 12, 2022: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 29, 2022 to Dec 30, 2022: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 12, 2023 to Jan 13, 2023: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 7, 2024 to May 10, 2024: about 120 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Oct 3, 2026 to Oct 6, 2026: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- nanoid (NPM): latest 6.0.2, published Oct 5, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: ai/nanoid, deps.dev: npm nanoid
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 9 hours ago · method 2026.10.2