Should I be using node-uuid or uuid?

Question

On npmjs.com there are packages for both node-uuid and uuid . Which should I be using? They're the same API, one is forked from the other, and divergent in commits.

Answer 1

uuid is the actively maintained project / package. The projects have been merged.

Answer 2

It looks like the uuid module is a fork of node-uuid from when the node-uuid author wasn't being very responsive. See: https://github.com/broofa/node-uuid/issues/116

Looking at the recent commit history of the two projects, it looks like a community member has stepped up and has been maintaining node-uuid , while uuid doesn't seem to be actively maintained, so I decided to pick node-uuid .