The only one anyone needs - is the list of fake todos, generated using https://github.com/bahmutov/fake-todos
See demo at http://glebbahmutov.com/fake-todos/
Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
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#22The age and avatar are not at all synced. Just a heads up if you're gonna be using this outside of testing.
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#23I used this at one point when I needed a large synthetic "customer" dataset, and found the sample size to be somewhat limited. I had to munge first/last names with added random characters. But looking at it now, it appears that's improved. For example, there are about 3000x500 first/last name combinations, for a total of about 1.5M possible full names (for en_US). However, if you need, say, as many unique last names as possible, 500 might still be too few. Still, a nice project.
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#24The only one anyone needs - is the list of fake todos, generated using https://github.com/bahmutov/fake-todos See demo at http://glebbahmutov.com/fake-todos/
"avoid cleaning bird" was in my fake list. I don't know whether it looks disturbing or nonsensical.
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#25It can help a lot when writing UI/Selenium tests with mocked/fake backend (as long as the application data model is well defined).
i also wrote a similar library around es6 generators that defines application data structures as plain JS objects and generates data objects out of it using fake random data
https://github.com/dmitriiabramov/sharkhorse
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#27Why would I want to use this? Is this for test data or for obfuscation?
So our front-end devs can try their interface designs with different data.
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#28I used this at one point when I needed a large synthetic "customer" dataset, and found the sample size to be somewhat limited. I had to munge first/last names with added random characters. But looking at it now, it appears that's improved. For example, there are about 3000x500 first/last name combinations, for a total of about 1.5M possible full names (for en_US). However, if you need, say, as many unique last names…
Faker.js now supports something like 30+ locales.
This should expand the amount of name combinations considerably.
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#29Good idea. Can anyone comment on this vs traditional QuickCheck like tools? We use property-based testing as our default. It seems like Faker is a less composable version.
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#30This reminds me of an old project of mine[0], this generates Arabic names. [0] https://github.com/RaedsLab/Tunisian_Name_Generator
Curious why you made this. Just checked it out. Why the phone number?