Generating Passwords with node.js
For a few years now, I've been using the same silly random password generator from a coworker of mine. Since I use 1Password for password management, I'm frequently creating new random passwords. While a feature exists within 1Password for generating new passwords, I usually find comfort in doing this from Terminal. When my coworker's server was down for a few days, I temporarily reverted to some bash-foo:
While these examples are super handy, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play around with node.js. This simple utility can generate 13 character random passwords using 2 node modules, express and request. Here is the meat of it:
I've published a working version to Heroku. You can find the full repository on GitHub. Give it a shot: