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Saleh Mubashar
Saleh Mubashar

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Create a unique ID in React JS

Hi Guys
Ok so in this post I will be giving you guys
the simple steps to create a unique reference
ID in react JS.
This has many uses such as giving a user uploaded
image a unique name for saving in a database.

Step 1:

Install UUID v4 using the following command

npm install uuidv4
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Step 2:

Import the package into your component, page or code etc.

import { v4 as uuid } from 'uuid';
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Step 3:

You can now assign the Uinique ID to any variable using the below code
unique_id is an example here, it can be any variable name.

const unique_id = uuid();
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And voila!, you're done.

Thank you all for reading this post.
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Until next time
Bye!

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@FelipeBHZ • Edited

If you are reading this in 2023, you should use the react-uuid package, otherwise you are going to get errors like:

Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
at Object.exports.deprecate (util.js:75:1)

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Saleh Mubashar

Thanks a lot for this!

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Ekaterine Mitagvaria

I am using it in React 18 and not having such errors. Besides, seems like react-uuid is deprecated right now.

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Luis Martinez Suarez

This has nothing to do with React