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| Faker.js | node-bell | |
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| 66 | - | |
| 1,569 | 279 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.7 | 0.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | over 8 years ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Faker.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Faker.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-31.
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JavaScript News and Updates of January 2022
Early this month, the malicious attack on free-to-use libraries, namely color.js and faker.js, created a real uproar in the development community. These tools are used in thousands of projects and their downloading rate from npm is estimated in millions per week. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be an inside job. Marak Squires, the creator of these libraries, intentionally committed malicious code to his projects and published updated codebases on GitHub and npm. It is said that this sabotage was caused by unsuccessful attempts of Mr. Squires to monetize his projects. Fortunately, malicious packages were quickly removed and the attacker’s account was suspended. The story sparked a new wave of discussion in the development community on possible steps to make the development and maintenance of open-source projects more sustainable.
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Unofficial Faker.js fork positions itself as official successor and assumes name and Open Collective sponsors
For anyone else curious about the allusion to Aaron Swartz, it can be found here and reads (as of posting):
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This is not normal.
Sorry little boy--- I needed to update my LinkedIn profile, hire a professional to write my resume and photograph me, and work on an open-source project no one will use (or worse- work on something everyone uses)"
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Is there something wrong with OpenSource model?
So people, I've been reading the news regarding some great packages on GitHub, like the Colors and the Faker. I understand that this isn't related entirely with the linux community, but it is something that we should pay attention.
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Re: the faker.js debacle: A daily reminder that htmx & hyperscript are dependency free
A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer.
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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
I mean he also maliciously changed all of the links on a faker.js issue to point to conspiracy theories (which I am pretty sure is against Github's TOS): https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/2
- What happened with fakerjs
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The EndGame - Fakerjs
About Four (4) Days Ago, the Author of Fakerjs a popular JavaScript library with more than 2 million weekly Download from NPM Deleted the repository and replaced it with one that only has the modified ReadMe "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" and no content, and pushed an empty package to npm as the latest version (6.6.6).
- Marak, creator of faker.js who recently deleted the project due to lack of funding and abuse of open source projects/developers pushed some strange Anti American update which has an infinite loop
- Marak adds infinite loop test to popular colors.js
node-bell
Posts with mentions or reviews of node-bell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning node-bell yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Faker.js and node-bell you can also consider the following projects:
jest-playwright - Running tests using Jest & Playwright
dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
simplecrawler - Flexible event driven crawler for node.
os-locale - Get the system locale
casual - Fake data generator for javascript
opn - Open stuff like URLs, files, executables. Cross-platform.
fake-store-api - FakeStoreAPI is a free online REST API that provides you fake e-commerce JSON data
deep-assign
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
bottleneck - Job scheduler and rate limiter, supports Clustering
msw - Seamless REST/GraphQL API mocking library for browser and Node.js.
v86 - x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser