Why does visjs need an unique uuid library?

[Jogai]

Why not depend on one of these for example? https://github.com/grantcarthew/awesome-unique-id#generation

[Thomaash]

To be honest I've never though about it. This is how it was when I came. Right now I can't think of any reason. Maybe @yotamberk or @mojoaxel would know about something?

Maybe we could switch to https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid (which implements the same RFC as we do here) as a part of visjs/vis-dev-utils#10 transition. I highly doubt many people, if anybody at all, depend on this directly so nobody will most likely care. It would be one package less to worry about.

[yotamberk]

The short answer: There isn't a reason... At the time there was no good library for creating uuids so vis created a library for it. This can probably be removed and use a more common uuid generator

[Thomaash]

Thanks for clarification. I'll purge it from the codebase then.

[mojoaxel]

Thanks for clarification. I'll purge it from the codebase then.

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