Blaver - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js

Blaver is a JavaScript library built on top of the Faker.JS library. It generates massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js.

Fake data is useful when building and testing our application. Blaver can generate fake data for various areas, including address, commerce, company, date, finance, image, random, or name.

What happened to the original faker.js?

This project was originally created and hosted at https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ - however around 4th Jan, 2022 - the author decided to delete the repository along with the code, for unknown reasons.

Blaver is a fork of the original Faker.js library. The original library was created by Marak Squires in 2011. Blaver aims to maintain the original library's functionality and add new features.

You can also access unofficial Faker.js documentation at https://fakerjsdocs.netlify.com/

Usage

Browser

<script src = "blaver.js" type = "text/javascript"></script>
<script>
  var randomName = blaver.name.findName(); // Caitlyn Kerluke
  var randomEmail = blaver.internet.email(); // Rusty@arne.info
  var randomCard = blaver.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties
</script>

Node.js

var blaver = require('blaver');

var randomName = blaver.name.findName(); // Rowan Nikolaus
var randomEmail = blaver.internet.email(); // Kassandra.Haley@erich.biz
var randomCard = blaver.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties

API

JSDoc API Browser

You can browse all API methods by going to the JSDoc API Browser.

API Methods

address
- zipCode
- zipCodeByState
- city
- cityPrefix
- citySuffix
- cityName
- streetName
- streetAddress
- streetSuffix
- streetPrefix
- secondaryAddress
- county
- country
- countryCode
- state
- stateAbbr
- latitude
- longitude
- direction
- cardinalDirection
- ordinalDirection
- nearbyGPSCoordinate
- timeZone
animal
- dog
- cat
- snake
- bear
- lion
- cetacean
- horse
- bird
- cow
- fish
- crocodilia
- insect
- rabbit
- type
commerce
- color
- department
- productName
- price
- productAdjective
- productMaterial
- product
- productDescription
company
- suffixes
- companyName
- companySuffix
- catchPhrase
- bs
- catchPhraseAdjective
- catchPhraseDescriptor
- catchPhraseNoun
- bsAdjective
- bsBuzz
- bsNoun
database
- column
- type
- collation
- engine
datatype
- number
- float
- datetime
- string
- uuid
- boolean
- hexaDecimal
- json
- array
- bigInt
date
- past
- future
- between
- betweens
- recent
- soon
- month
- weekday
fake
finance
- account
- accountName
- routingNumber
- mask
- amount
- transactionType
- currencyCode
- currencyName
- currencySymbol
- bitcoinAddress
- litecoinAddress
- creditCardNumber
- creditCardCVV
- ethereumAddress
- iban
- bic
- transactionDescription
git
- branch
- commitEntry
- commitMessage
- commitSha
- shortSha
hacker
- abbreviation
- adjective
- noun
- verb
- ingverb
- phrase
helpers
- randomize
- slugify
- replaceSymbolWithNumber
- replaceSymbols
- replaceCreditCardSymbols
- repeatString
- regexpStyleStringParse
- shuffle
- uniqueArray
- mustache
- createCard
- contextualCard
- userCard
- createTransaction
image
- image
- avatar
- imageUrl
- abstract
- animals
- business
- cats
- city
- food
- nightlife
- fashion
- people
- nature
- sports
- technics
- transport
- dataUri
- lorempixel
- unsplash
- lorempicsum
internet
- avatar
- email
- exampleEmail
- userName
- protocol
- httpMethod
- url
- domainName
- domainSuffix
- domainWord
- ip
- ipv6
- port
- userAgent
- color
- mac
- password
lorem
- word
- words
- sentence
- slug
- sentences
- paragraph
- paragraphs
- text
- lines
mersenne
- rand
- seed
- seed_array
music
- genre
name
- firstName
- lastName
- middleName
- findName
- jobTitle
- gender
- prefix
- suffix
- title
- jobDescriptor
- jobArea
- jobType
phone
- phoneNumber
- phoneNumberFormat
- phoneFormats
random
- number
- float
- arrayElement
- arrayElements
- objectElement
- uuid
- boolean
- word
- words
- image
- locale
- alpha
- alphaNumeric
- hexaDecimal
system
- fileName
- commonFileName
- mimeType
- commonFileType
- commonFileExt
- fileType
- fileExt
- directoryPath
- filePath
- semver
time
- recent
unique
vehicle
- vehicle
- manufacturer
- model
- type
- fuel
- vin
- color
- vrm
- bicycle
word
- adjective
- adverb
- conjunction
- interjection
- noun
- preposition
- verb

Blaver.fake()

Blaver contains a super useful generator method Blaver.fake for combining faker API methods using a mustache string format.

Example:

console.log(blaver.fake("{{name.lastName}}, {{name.firstName}} {{name.suffix}}"));
// outputs: "Marks, Dean Sr."

This will interpolate the format string with the value of methods name.lastName(), name.firstName(), and name.suffix()

Localization

Blaver has support for multiple localities – ported directly from the orginal faker.js library (version v2.0.0).

The default language locale is set to English.

Setting a new locale is simple:

// sets locale to de
blaver.locale = "de";

az
ar
cz
de
de_AT
de_CH
en
en_AU
en_AU_ocker
en_BORK
en_CA
en_GB
en_IE
en_IND
en_US
en_ZA
es
es_MX
he
fa
fi
fr
fr_CA
fr_CH
ge
hy
hr
id_ID
it
ja
ko
mk
nb_NO
ne
nl
nl_BE
pl
pt_BR
pt_PT
ro
ru
sk
sv
tr
uk
vi
zh_CN
zh_TW

Individual Localization Packages

Blaver supports incremental loading of locales.

By default, requiring blaver will include all locale data.

In a production environment, you may only want to include the locale data for a specific set of locales.

// loads only de locale
var blaver = require('blaver/locale/de');

Setting a randomness seed

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

blaver.seed(123);

var firstRandom = blaver.random.number();

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

var secondRandom = blaver.random.number();

console.log(firstRandom === secondRandom);

Tests

npm install .
make test

You can view a code coverage report generated in coverage/lcov-report/index.html.

Building Blaver

Blaver uses gulp to automate its build process. Each build operation is a separate task which can be run independently.

Browser Bundle

npm run browser

Building JSDocs

JSDOC v3 HTML API documentation

npm run jsdoc

Building Readme

The Readme.md file for blaver is automatically generated and should not be modified directly. All updates to Readme.md should be performed in ./build/src/docs.md and then the build script should be run.

npm run readme

Maintainers

Kumar Priyansh

https://github.com/luciferreeves/blaver

https://npmjs.com/package/blaver

Marak Squires

http://github.com/marak/faker.js/

faker.js was inspired by and has used data definitions from:

http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Data-Faker-0.07/ - Copyright 2004-2005 by Jason Kohles

blaver

Blaver - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js

What happened to the original faker.js?

Usage

Browser

Node.js

API

JSDoc API Browser

API Methods

Blaver.fake()

Localization

Individual Localization Packages

Setting a randomness seed

Tests

Building Blaver

Browser Bundle

Building JSDocs

Building Readme

Maintainers

Kumar Priyansh

Marak Squires

Readme

Keywords

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blaver

Blaver - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js

What happened to the original faker.js?

Usage

Browser

Node.js

API

JSDoc API Browser

API Methods

Blaver.fake()

Localization

Individual Localization Packages

Setting a randomness seed

Tests

Building Blaver

Browser Bundle

Building JSDocs

Building Readme

Maintainers

Kumar Priyansh

Marak Squires

Readme

Keywords

Package Sidebar

Install

Repository

Homepage

DownloadsWeekly Downloads

Version

License

Unpacked Size

Total Files

Last publish

Collaborators

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