I'm working on a MERN patient monitoring system app, which requires generating unique patient ID for each patient. MongoDB object IDs are not user friendly for real time applications. So how can I modify an ID like this, "6260156170355cbf6ec668g4" to display on the frontend as a clean, short unique patient ID for each patient?
Also is there is any way to generate unique sequential IDs from object IDs?
If you want to generate short ids, try out nano id (https://github.com/ai/nanoid/).