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Farewell Faker, time to give a Chance
An alternative way to replace Faker in your Javascript projects and some thoughts about open source libraries.
So you are a Javascript/Typescript developer who loves open sourced npm packages and uses the most of them. That is great! I do the same…
Only issue is when the creator of some package gets angry with the community and decides to destroy the entire package, like Faker creator did a few days ago.
For who is out of date or new to Javascript universe and specially when talking about generating random data for testing purposes, Faker is/was a library from the NPM package which allowed you to easily generate names, emails, phone numbers, address and other readable information that a lot of developers uses in their testing environment in a daily basis.
note: this is article is beginners oriented.
The usage of Faker is insane, if you get their npm data you might be also impressed:
I won’t get into a deeper explanation since there are several news out there that you can read such as this one in The Verge.
