plop VS faker

Almost all of us, while working on a project, are copy/pasting from the previous one while creating similar structures. While thinking if there is a fast way to do this, I came across plop js.

In this article, I will talk about Plop, which is a little tool that saves you time and helps your team build new files with consistency, as the documentation suggests.

My tool of choice is Plop.js. Plop is a powerful "micro-generator framework" built to help maintain patterns as well as speed up your project build time. From the documenation:

Plop

When it comes to software development, a good developer experience (or DX) is a key aspect in helping the development process to become faster and more efficient. Having a good DX means that developers are focusing on the real deal while other, less important stuff, is being taken care of by automated tools. Such a tool is Plop which I really love for its simplicity and efficiency.

this allows you to import this Header component with import { Header } from 'path/Header' without Header/Header. Creating this structure manually is annoying, so one will benefit from some code generators like plop or hygen.

plop for create a consistent templates for pages, components, etc

Plop

Instead of manually having to think of defaults for your interface properties, you could use Faker.

If you think you have something which other Faker users would find useful, you can contribute it to Faker! See the contributing guide, you can create an issue or a pull request.

First, we create a react project, and then we use a service faker to create 25000 user records.

Use faker.js to generate random values for your mock data.

I built a starter project for developing a social media app with Sveltekit, Lucia Auth, Prisma and Faker.js. Uses sqlite for prototyping but can easily be changed to Postgres or MySQL.

Don’t even need chatGPT or json files! There are libraries like faker that’ll do it on the fly for you!

I am currently working with Typescript as well as C++ and I enjoyed using FakerJS library for testing data. I've checked for C++ libraries and I haven't found anything that could be used for my basic needs (like generating emails, passwords, names, uuids or lorem words) so I just started my own project with idea to deliver such library to C++ developers.