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

This is cool.<p>I'm gently disturbed that it generates valid email addresses. You pick a random name, follow it with an @, then add a random word, and then add a TLD. Obviously you're not responsible for how people use the tool.<p>Best practice would be to use the domain example.com

Great project! I would, however, recommend an API with more namespaces. Functions like Address.ukCounty don't sit well with me; such an API would be a mess if you added support for countries other than the US and the UK. You could (and probably create namespaces for each country code, e.g.:<p><pre><code> Address |-&#62; US |-&#62; state |-&#62; UK |-&#62; state </code></pre> An alternative would be for country-specific generators to take a country code as an argument. I am not an experienced API designer, though, so take my comments with a heaping of salt.

Very nice library. It would be nice to add the ability to generate random values based on a distribution, e.g. the values are random but correspond to a normal distribution with a given mean and standard deviation. This would be very useful for testing statistical libraries and applications.

Obligatory "I wrote something similar" post. But my tool is written in Java, doesn't run in the browser, but does use @example.com for the email addresses.<p><a href="https://github.com/mindcrime/dummydatagenerator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mindcrime/dummydatagenerator</a>

This is fantastic. I was actually looking for something like this to test some APIs with dummy data.

Shameless plug: I also created a similar library for Scala some time ago <a href="https://github.com/justwrote/scala-faker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/justwrote/scala-faker</a><p>Need to update to 2.10 soon :)

Cool. I recently build a similar thing for Magento to provide demo data and for anonymization purposes. Some parts of faker.js needs sure refactorings ...

Thanks! I won't be using <a href="http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/</a> as much now.

What's the use case for this? To annoy spammers?

So many Node.js libraries....

Great, thanks!

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