@faker-js/faker

What is @faker-js/faker?

The @faker-js/faker package is a powerful tool for generating massive amounts of fake (but realistic) data for various purposes such as testing, bootstrapping databases, and creating rich prototypes. It can create data for names, addresses, phone numbers, and much more.

What are @faker-js/faker's main functionalities?

Basic random data generation

Generate random names, addresses, and other basic personal information.

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');
console.log(faker.name.findName()); // Generates a random name

Localization

Support for localized data, allowing generation of data that is locale-specific.

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');
faker.locale = 'de';
console.log(faker.name.findName()); // Generates a random name with German locale

Random numbers

Create random numbers, including options for specifying ranges and precision.

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');
console.log(faker.datatype.number()); // Generates a random number

Date and time

Generate random dates and times, with the ability to specify past or future dates.

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');
console.log(faker.date.future()); // Generates a random future date

Internet-related data

Create fake internet data such as email addresses, domain names, and URLs.

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');
console.log(faker.internet.email()); // Generates a random email address

Commerce data

Generate commerce-related data like product names, prices, and categories.

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');
console.log(faker.commerce.productName()); // Generates a random product name

Images

Create URLs for random placeholder images.

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');
console.log(faker.image.imageUrl()); // Generates a random image URL

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README

Faker

Generate massive amounts of fake (but realistic) data for testing and development.

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📙 API Documentation

• Getting Started Guide
• API Reference

🚀 Features

• 🧍 Person - Generate Names, Genders, Bios, Job titles, and more.
• 📍 Location - Generate Addresses, Zip Codes, Street Names, States, and Countries!
• ⏰ Date - Past, present, future, recent, soon... whenever!
• 💸 Finance - Create stubbed out Account Details, Transactions, and Crypto Addresses.
• 👠 Commerce - Generate Prices, Product Names, Adjectives, and Descriptions.
• 👾 Hacker - “Try to reboot the SQL bus, maybe it will bypass the virtual application!”
• 🔢 Number and String - Of course, we can also generate random numbers and strings.
• 🌏 Localization - Pick from over 60 locales to generate realistic looking Names, Addresses, and Phone Numbers.

Note: Faker tries to generate realistic data and not obvious fake data. The generated names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and/or other data might be coincidentally valid information. Please do not send any of your messages/calls to them from your test setup.

📦 Install

npm install --save-dev @faker-js/faker

🪄 Usage

// ESM
import { faker } from '@faker-js/faker';

// CJS
const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');

export function createRandomUser() {
  return {
    userId: faker.string.uuid(),
    username: faker.internet.username(), // before version 9.1.0, use userName()
    email: faker.internet.email(),
    avatar: faker.image.avatar(),
    password: faker.internet.password(),
    birthdate: faker.date.birthdate(),
    registeredAt: faker.date.past(),
  };
}

export const users = faker.helpers.multiple(createRandomUser, {
  count: 5,
});

💎 Modules

An in-depth overview of the API methods is available in the documentation for v9 (stable) and v9.* (next).

Templates

Faker contains a generator method faker.helpers.fake for combining faker API methods using a mustache string format.

console.log(
  faker.helpers.fake(
    'Hello {{person.prefix}} {{person.lastName}}, how are you today?'
  )
);

🌏 Localization

Faker has support for multiple locales.

The main faker instance uses the English locale. But you can also import instances using other locales.

// ESM
import { fakerDE as faker } from '@faker-js/faker';

// CJS
const { fakerDE: faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');

See our documentation for a list of provided languages.

Please note: Not every locale provides data for every module. In our pre-made faker instances, we fall back to English in such a case as this is the most complete and most commonly used language. If you don't want that or prefer a different fallback, you can also build your own instances.

import { de, de_CH, Faker } from '@faker-js/faker';

export const faker = new Faker({
  locale: [de_CH, de],
});

⚙️ Setting a randomness seed

If you want consistent results, you can set your own seed:

faker.seed(123);

const firstRandom = faker.number.int();

// Setting the seed again resets the sequence.
faker.seed(123);

const secondRandom = faker.number.int();

console.log(firstRandom === secondRandom);

🤝 Sponsors

Faker is an MIT-licensed open source project with its ongoing development made possible entirely by the support of these awesome backers

Sponsors

Backers

✨ Contributing

Please make sure to read the Contributing Guide before making a pull request.

📘 Credits

Thanks to all the people who already contributed to Faker!

The fakerjs.dev website is generously hosted by Netlify, with search functionality powered by Algolia.

📝 Changelog

Detailed changes for each release are documented in the release notes.

📜 What happened to the original faker.js?

Read the team update (January 14th, 2022).

🔑 License

MIT