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Omar Dulaimi
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How to create unique temporary directories in Nodejs?

π—‘π—Όπ—±π—²π—·π˜€ provides an awesome method that lets you create unique temporary directories.

This is really useful when you need to store some data temporarily then delete them later.

π—‘π—Όπ—±π—²π—·π˜€ helps you further, by concatenating 6 unique characters to the π—½π—Ώπ—²π—³π—Άπ˜… you pick. This results in creating unique directories every single time without worrying about collisions.

Library authors will benefit of this tip as well of course.

Just make sure to avoid trailing 𝗫 characters in the π—½π—Ώπ—²π—³π—Άπ˜…, due to some platform inconsistencies.

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Zoppatorsk

Did not know about that function. Have just used stuff like uuid to generate unique temp directory names. This will come in handy, can drop the uuid dependency.

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Omar Dulaimi

Yeah, I was amazed when I saw it. Glad you enjoyed my post.