/faker.js

generate massive amounts of fake data in Node.js and the browser

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faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js

Faker.js

Build Status

npm version

Demo

http://marak.com/faker.js/

Usage

Browser

<script src = "faker.js" type = "text/javascript"></script>
<script>
  var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Caitlyn Kerluke
  var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // Rusty@arne.info
  var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties
</script>

Node.js

var faker = require('./faker');

var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Rowan Nikolaus
var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // Kassandra.Haley@erich.biz
var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties

Dependent tools

Fake JSON Schema

Use faker generators to populate JSON Schema samples. See: https://github.com/pateketrueke/json-schema-faker/

CLI

Run faker generators from Command Line. See: https://github.com/lestoni/faker-cli

Meteor

Meteor installation

  meteor add practicalmeteor:faker

meteor usage, both client and server

  var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Rowan Nikolaus
  var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // Kassandra.Haley@erich.biz
  var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties

Localization

As of version v2.0.0 faker.js supports 27 different language definition packs.

The default language is set to English.

Setting a new locale is simple:

// sets locale to de
faker.locale = "de";

Read further for complete list of locales.

API

  • name
    • firstName
    • lastName
    • findName
    • prefix
    • suffix
  • address
    • zipCode
    • city
    • cityPrefix
    • citySuffix
    • streetName
    • streetAddress
    • streetSuffix
    • secondaryAddress
    • county
    • country
    • state
    • stateAbbr
    • latitude
    • longitude
  • phone
    • phoneNumber
    • phoneNumberFormat
    • phoneFormats
  • internet
    • avatar
    • email
    • userName
    • domainName
    • domainSuffix
    • domainWord
    • ip
    • userAgent
    • color
    • password
  • company
    • suffixes
    • companyName
    • companySuffix
    • catchPhrase
    • bs
    • catchPhraseAdjective
    • catchPhraseDescriptor
    • catchPhraseNoun
    • bsAdjective
    • bsBuzz
    • bsNoun
  • image
    • image
    • avatar
    • imageUrl
    • abstract
    • animals
    • business
    • cats
    • city
    • food
    • nightlife
    • fashion
    • people
    • nature
    • sports
    • technics
    • transport
  • lorem
    • words
    • sentence
    • sentences
    • paragraph
    • paragraphs
  • helpers
    • randomNumber
    • randomize
    • slugify
    • replaceSymbolWithNumber
    • shuffle
    • mustache
    • createCard
    • contextualCard
    • userCard
    • createTransaction
  • date
    • past
    • future
    • between
    • recent
  • random
    • number
    • array_element
    • object_element
    • uuid
  • finance
    • account
    • accountName
    • mask
    • amount
    • transactionType
    • currencyCode
    • currencyName
    • currencySymbol
  • hacker
    • abbreviation
    • adjective
    • noun
    • verb
    • ingverb
    • phrase
  • locales
    • de
    • de_AT
    • de_CH
    • en
    • en_AU
    • en_BORK
    • en_CA
    • en_GB
    • en_IND
    • en_US
    • en_au_ocker
    • es
    • fa
    • fr
    • it
    • ja
    • ko
    • nb_NO
    • nep
    • nl
    • pl
    • pt_BR
    • ru
    • sk
    • sv
    • vi
    • zh_CN
  • locale
    • 0
    • 1
  • localeFallback
    • 0
    • 1
  • definitions
    • name
    • address
    • company
    • lorem
    • hacker
    • phone_number
    • finance
    • internet

Tests

npm install .
make test

You can view a code coverage report generated in coverage/lcov-report/index.html.

Authors

Matthew Bergman & Marak Squires

faker.js - Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Matthew Bergman & Marak Squires http://github.com/marak/faker.js/

faker.js was inspired by and has used data definitions from:

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