copycat
Generate deterministic fake values: The same input will always generate the same fake-output. (by snaplet)
faker
Generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js (by faker-js)
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| copycat | faker | |
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| 13 | 58 | |
| 316 | 11,732 | |
| 4.8% | 2.8% | |
| 8.8 | 9.7 | |
| 2 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
copycat
Posts with mentions or reviews of copycat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-23.
- Resend – Incident report for February 21st, 2024
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Greenmask: PostgreSQL Dump and Obfuscation Tool
Check out https://www.snaplet.dev (I'm the founder). We do exactly this.
- Pgtemp: The easiest way to write tests with Postgres in Rust, without Docker
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Supabase Branching
Testing with product workloads today? If you need to test with production workloads today, check out Snaplet and Postgres.ai. Both are great partners of Supabase.
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How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development - #3 Better Developer Experience
It’s worth noting that being able to branch production data for testing easily doesn’t mean you should just do it. It poses a significant risk of leaking sensitive user data. You should consider using tools like Snaplet to transform and anonymize sensitive columns.
- Show HN: Seed your Postgres development database with production-like data
- Show AWS: Snaplet clones a subset of your Postgres RDS instance, whilst anonymizing the data, so that you can restore it into your development environments: Local, staging, and preview.
- Show HN: Seed your Postgres database with production-like data
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Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io
[disclosure: I'm the founder of Snaplet]
I think there are a lot of different reasons why people may want to use a service like bit.io, but if you want a database with data in it to code against, run tests against, reproduce production related data-bugs, and run e2e tests against then check out https://www.snaplet.dev.
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Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase
For now, this is very experimental - but it has a lot of potential. If you want to get involved, please reach out to us or the team at [Snaplet(https://www.snaplet.dev/). The work they're doing over at Snaplet is incredible, and we've had a blast collaborating with them.
faker
Posts with mentions or reviews of faker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-15.
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Easily create mock data for unit tests 🧪
Instead of manually having to think of defaults for your interface properties, you could use Faker.
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Leveling up your custom fake data with Faker.js
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.
- Front-End Prototyping - Mock JSON Data Provider
- Show HN: Buyidentities.com
- Show HN: Generate JSON mock data for testing/initial app development
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Web workers in ReactJs
First, we create a react project, and then we use a service faker to create 25000 user records.
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Component Testing with Cypress and Reactjs
Use faker.js to generate random values for your mock data.
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Sveltekit Twitter Clone starter made with Lucia Auth, Prisma and Faker.js
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.
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How do you get realistic data in your staging databases?
Don’t even need chatGPT or json files! There are libraries like faker that’ll do it on the fly for you!
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C++ Faker library
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing copycat and faker you can also consider the following projects:
Replibyte - Seed your development database with real data ⚡️
falso - All the Fake Data for All Your Real Needs 🙂
Faker.js - What really happened with Aaron Swartz?
helm-charts - neondatabase helm charts
yup-schema-faker - Fake data generator for yup
fakey - web-based fake data generator.
casual - Fake data generator for javascript
postgres-wasm - A PostgresQL server in your browser
plop - Consistency Made Simple
Mongo Seeding - 🌱 The ultimate solution for populating your MongoDB database.
Prisma - Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB