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cline/mint
==========

A comprehensive unique identifier generation library supporting UUID, ULID, Snowflake, NanoID, Sqids, KSUID, CUID2, TypeID, XID, ObjectID, PushID, and Timeflake

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---

Mint is a unified identifier generation library for Laravel that provides a fluent API for generating, parsing, and validating various types of unique identifiers. Whether you need time-ordered UUIDs for database performance, compact NanoIDs for URLs, or type-prefixed TypeIDs for self-documenting APIs, Mint has you covered.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

> **Requires [PHP 8.4+](https://php.net/releases/) and Laravel 12+**

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require cline/mint
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

- **[Getting Started](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/getting-started)** - Installation and basic concepts
- **[UUID](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/uuid)** - Universally Unique Identifiers (RFC 4122/9562)
- **[ULID](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/ulid)** - Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers
- **[Snowflake](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/snowflake)** - Twitter-style 64-bit time-ordered identifiers
- **[NanoID](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/nanoid)** - Compact, URL-safe random identifiers
- **[Sqid](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/sqid)** - Encode/decode integers to short strings
- **[Hashid](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/hashid)** - Encode/decode integers with salt
- **[TypeID](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/typeid)** - Type-prefixed UUIDv7 identifiers
- **[KSUID](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/ksuid)** - K-Sortable Unique Identifiers
- **[Other Identifiers](https://docs.cline.sh/mint/other-identifiers)** - CUID2, ObjectID, and more

Change log
----------

[](#change-log)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for details.

Security
--------

[](#security)

If you discover any security related issues, please use the [GitHub security reporting form](https://github.com/faustbrian/mint/security) rather than the issue queue.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Brian Faust](https://github.com/faustbrian)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License. Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance90

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~7 days

Total

7

Last Release

52d ago

Major Versions

1.x-dev → 2.0.02026-03-04

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22145591?v=4)[Brian Faust](/maintainers/faustbrian)[@faustbrian](https://github.com/faustbrian)

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Top Contributors

[![faustbrian](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22145591?v=4)](https://github.com/faustbrian "faustbrian (11 commits)")

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