UUID libraries for React Native

1. react-native-uuid

⚠️ Caution
react-native-uuid appears to support up to v5 at the time of writing.

npm install react-native-uuid

import uuid from 'react-native-uuid';
uuid.v4();

2. uuid (and plus)

npm install uuid react-native-get-random-values
npx pod-install

import 'react-native-get-random-values'; // This must precede `uuid`
import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
uuidv4();

Comments

[Patrice Ferlet]

I really don't understand why not using the browser built-in crypto.randomUUID()

[Jeon]

That is v4 only. But your comment is also good if v4 is enough.

[Patrice Ferlet]

Yes :) but your article is for v4 too

[Jeon]

Yeah. The examples might be too simple. Both libs support other versions as well as v4.