nl_tokens: 128 bit ids can generate up to 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 9 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 unique ids . By base - 62 encoding them we can shorten the length of the id to 22 places via http : // stackoverflow . com / questions / 8482309 / converting - javascript - integer - to - byte - array - and - back
pl_tokens: function longToBytes ( long ) { // we want to represent the input as a 8-bytes array var byteArray = [ 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ] ; for ( var index = 0 ; <mask> < byteArray . length ; index ++ ) { var byte = long & 0xff ; byteArray [ index ] = byte ; long = ( ( long - byte ) / 256 ) ; } return byteArray . reverse ( ) ; }