Farewell Faker, time to give a Chance

Marcos Henrique da Silva
7 min readJan 14, 2022

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.

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