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Instead of Math.random(), you can use crypto.getRandomValues() to generate evenly-distributed cryptographically-secure random numbers. Here's an example:

function randInt(min, max) {
  var MAX_UINT32 = 0xFFFFFFFF;
  var range = max - min;

  if (!(range <= MAX_UINT32)) {
    throw new Error(
      "Range of " + range + " covering " + min + " to " + max + " is > " +
      MAX_UINT32 + ".");
  } else if (min === max) {
    return min;
  } else if (!(max > min)) {
    throw new Error("max (" + max + ") must be >= min (" + min + ").");
  }

  // We need to cut off values greater than this to avoid bias in distribution
  // over the range.
  var maxUnbiased = MAX_UINT32 - ((MAX_UINT32 + 1) % (range + 1));

  var rand;
  do {
    rand = crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint32Array(1))[0];
  } while (rand > maxUnbiased);

  var offset = rand % (range + 1);
  return min + offset;
}

console.log(randInt(-8, 8));          // -2
console.log(randInt(0, 0));           // 0
console.log(randInt(0, 0xFFFFFFFF));  // 944450079
console.log(randInt(-1, 0xFFFFFFFF));
// Uncaught Error: Range of 4294967296 covering -1 to 4294967295 is > 4294967295.
console.log(new Array(24).fill().map(n => randInt(8, 12)));
// [11, 8, 8, 11, 10, 8, 8, 12, 12, 12, 9, 9,
//  11, 8, 11, 8, 8, 8, 11, 9, 10, 12, 9, 11]
console.log(randInt(10, 8));
// Uncaught Error: max (8) must be >= min (10).

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