Used in agent projects
161
1.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#9 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
269M
npm, last 7 days, nanoid
GitHub stars
27.1K
last push Oct 10, 2026
How Nanoid is used
Nanoid is a dependency in 161 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.3%), #9 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (68.3%), Tailwind Merge (64.0%), clsx (65.2%).
Often used with Nanoid
| Zod | 68.3% of Nanoid projects · 4.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind Merge | 64.0% of Nanoid projects · 3.8× more than average |
| clsx | 65.2% of Nanoid projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 59.0% of Nanoid projects · 4.2× more than average |
| Lucide React | 64.6% of Nanoid projects · 3.3× more than average |
| Radix UI | 52.2% of Nanoid projects · 4.4× more than average |
| date-fns | 48.4% of Nanoid projects · 5.7× more than average |
| next-themes | 44.1% of Nanoid projects · 5.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 2.1% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 2.0% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.5% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
| Kiro | 4.1% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Nanoid as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install nanoid |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (82), TypeScript / JavaScript (70), Rust (4), Python (3) |
| Example projects | crbnos/carbon, Hyk260/PureChat, NeurProjects/neur-app, inboundemail/inbound, nirholas/three.ws |
Alternatives to Nanoid
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |