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# Nanoid

A port of nodes nano\_id which is a small, url safe, id generator that is better than uuid because it uses more letters allowing it to be 21 letters instead of 36.

```elixir
      {:nanoid, "~> 2.0.2"},
```

```elixir
Nanoid.generate(12)
```