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unique-random
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Generate random numbers that are consecutively unique.
Useful for eg. slideshows where you don't want to have the same slide twice in a row.
Download manually or with a package-manager.
$ npm install --save unique-random
$ bower install --save unique-random
$ component install sindresorhus/unique-random
Generate a random number between 1 and 10.
var rand = require('unique-random')(1, 10);
console.log(rand(), rand(), rand());
//=> 5 2 6
<script src="bower_components/unique-random/unique-random.js"></script>
var rand = uniqueRandom(1, 10);
console.log(rand(), rand(), rand());
//=> 5 2 6
Returns a function which when called will return a random number that's never the same as the previous number.
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Generate random numbers that are consecutively unique
The npm package unique-random receives a total of 50,077 weekly downloads. As such, unique-random popularity was classified as popular.
We found that unique-random demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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