faker.js – Tool To Generate Fake Data For Testing

August 12, 2017 | 872 views 0

faker.js is a tool to generate fake data in Node.js and in the browser, it has a lot of different data types to enable you to generate very customised and complete sets of fake or mock data for testing purposes.

faker.js - Tool To Generate Fake Data

It also supports multiple languages and locales and can generate a lot of data types to fit your use case.

Data Types

address
commerce
company
database
date
finance
hacker
helpers
image
internet
lorem
name
phone
random
system

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>

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