diff --git a/types/nanoid/format.d.ts b/types/nanoid/format.d.ts
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+declare function format(random: (bytes: number) => number[], alphabet: string, size: number): string;
+
+export = format;
diff --git a/types/nanoid/generate.d.ts b/types/nanoid/generate.d.ts
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+declare function generate(alphabet: string, size: number): string;
+
+export = generate;
diff --git a/types/nanoid/index.d.ts b/types/nanoid/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for nanoid 1.0
+// Project: https://github.com/ai/nanoid
+// Definitions by: Ruben Schmidmeister <https://github.com/bash>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare function nanoid(size?: number): string;
+
+export = nanoid;
diff --git a/types/nanoid/nanoid-tests.ts b/types/nanoid/nanoid-tests.ts
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+++ b/types/nanoid/nanoid-tests.ts
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+import nanoid = require('nanoid');
+import format = require('nanoid/format');
+import generate = require('nanoid/generate');
+import random = require('nanoid/random');
+import randomBrowser = require('nanoid/random-browser');
+import url = require('nanoid/url');
+
+const _random = (size: number) => [1, 2, 3, 4];
+
+nanoid();
+nanoid(10);
+format(_random, "abcdef", 5);
+generate('0123456789абвгдеё', 5);
+random(10);
+randomBrowser(10);
+
+console.log(url);
diff --git a/types/nanoid/random-browser.d.ts b/types/nanoid/random-browser.d.ts
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+declare function randomBrowser(bytes: number): Uint8Array;
+
+export = randomBrowser;
diff --git a/types/nanoid/random.d.ts b/types/nanoid/random.d.ts
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+++ b/types/nanoid/random.d.ts
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+/// <reference types="node" />
+
+import crypto = require('crypto');
+
+export = crypto.randomBytes;
diff --git a/types/nanoid/tsconfig.json b/types/nanoid/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "format.d.ts",
+        "generate.d.ts",
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "nanoid-tests.ts",
+        "random-browser.d.ts",
+        "random.d.ts",
+        "url.d.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/nanoid/tslint.json b/types/nanoid/tslint.json
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+++ b/types/nanoid/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }
diff --git a/types/nanoid/url.d.ts b/types/nanoid/url.d.ts
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+declare var url: string;
+
+export = url;