Why would I want to use this? Is this for test data or for obfuscation?
we use it for writing fixtures for tests
Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
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#12Why would I want to use this? Is this for test data or for obfuscation?
people use it for building dating sites.
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#13This looks interesting and very useful. However my only question is what is the license of those generated avatar?
Re: Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
#14Why would I want to use this? Is this for test data or for obfuscation?
Writing mock APIs for front-end dev.
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#15Why would I want to use this? Is this for test data or for obfuscation?
I'm currently using it to mock my API responses for a front-end application.
Re: Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
#16This looks interesting and very useful. However my only question is what is the license of those generated avatar?
The avatars come from UI Faces: http://uifaces.com/
You have to give your consent in order to appear there.
Re: Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
#17Faker.js is pretty great. I wrote a simple package to generate fake data for MySQL tables. It's rather basic, but it's been useful to me. It probably wouldn't be hard to stick a DB abstraction layer in front to use with other backends.
Re: Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hook.io is still a thing? I didn't hear anything about it after the drama back in the days.
Until I googled it just now, I actually didn't know about this whole drama. I've been using it for the last year and had a really good experience. (Drama: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/Rl3drk9YQ_Q )
Nice to know.
I used it for a project before the drama and switched to vert.x after it.
Re: Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
#19Why would I want to use this? Is this for test data or for obfuscation?
I used this to generate test data for application benchmarking. That is, when I wanted real-ish data to test scalability.
Re: Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
#20Faker.js is pretty great. I wrote a simple package to generate fake data for MySQL tables. It's rather basic, but it's been useful to me. It probably wouldn't be hard to stick a DB abstraction layer in front to use with other backends. https://github.com/michaelmior/mysql-faker
Similarly I wrote a tool that uses Faker to generate api fixtures :) Why go stright to the DB when you can test your api at the same time?