esm-seedrandom

Explicitly seeded random number generator for JavaScript, ported to ES Modules.

Unit tested for number generator compatability with original seedrandom CommonJS NPM package.

• Version: 3.0.5
• Author: David Bau
• Date: 2019-09-14
• ES Modules port in 2020-12 by Shane Holloway

Demo

Live demo

Use

Fast PRNG Algorithms

To use Johannes Baagøe's extremely fast Alea PRNG:

// Use alea for Johannes Baagøe's clever and fast floating-point RNG.
import {prng_alea} from 'esm-seedrandom';
let myrng = prng_alea('hello.');

// By default provides 32 bits of randomness in a float.
console.log(myrng());               // Always 0.4783254903741181 for this seed and sequence
console.log(myrng.quick());         // Always 0.8297006865032017 for this seed and sequence

// Use "double" to get 56 bits of randomness.
console.log(myrng.double());        // Always 0.4692433053279662 for this seed and sequence

// Use "int32" to get a 32 bit (signed) integer.
console.log(myrng.int32());         // Always 1350551666 for this seed and sequence

or direclty from HTML,

Docs

See the API docs.

Overview

From NodeJS,

npm install esm-seedrandom

or in HTML,

Saving & Restoring PRNG state

import {prng_alea} from 'esm-seedrandom';

let rng_first = prng_alea("secret-seed", {state: true});
let saved_state = rng_first.state()
for (let j = 0; j < 1e5; ++j)
  rng_first();

// later

let rng_replica = prng_alea("", {state: saved_state});
for (let j = 0; j < 1e5; ++j)
  rng_replica();

In normal use the prng is opaque and its internal state cannot be accessed. However, if the state option is provided, the prng gets a state() method that returns a plain object the can be used to reconstruct a prng later in the same state (by passing that saved object back as the state option).

Unit tests

Mocha-based live unittests for reproducability and validation of state capture and restore.

In NodeJS unittests, validation of state snapshot compatability with the original seedrandom CommonJS implementation is performed.

License (MIT)

MIT