About

This is a vscode extension to easily insert a nano id at the current point of focus. It provides 3 commands + shortcuts for different sizes.
Default sizes:

• large: 36,
• medium: 21,
• small: 10.

The default seed only includes numbers as well as lowercase and uppercase letters.
The first character will always be a letter.
This is to make it easier to use the ids as object properties, since strings with hyphens and strings with a starting number will require special attention.

Use this extension

In Editor

• place your focus where you want to insert a nano id in your editor

  • use command palette

    • press ctrl+shift+p or f1 to open command palette
    • run either command
      • gen.nano.id.sm for small nano id
      • gen.nano.id.md for large nano id
      • gen.nano.id.lg for medium nano id

  • shortcuts

    • shift+alt+u 1 for small nano id
    • shift+alt+u 2 for medium nano id
    • shift+alt+u 3 for large nano id

  • mac shortcuts

    • shift+option+u 1 for small nano id
    • shift+option+u 2 for medium nano id
    • shift+option+u 3 for large nano id

NOTE: shift+alt+u 1 doesn't mean pressing all 4 keys together, but rather pressing shift+alt+u together, letting go and then pressing 1

In terminal

• place your focus where you want to insert a nano id in your terminal
  • use command palette
    • press ctrl+shift+p or f1 to open command palette
    • run either command
      • gen.nano.id.sm.term for small nano id
      • gen.nano.id.md.term for large nano id
      • gen.nano.id.lg.term for medium nano id
  • use shortcuts
    • same as in editor

Customize

Size and seed can be customized for each command/shortcut via extension Settings

• ctrl+shift+p or f1 to open command palette
• Settings
• search for nano-id-gen
• edit
• reload vscode! (ctrl+shift+p or f1 and then enter reload)