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Generating fake data for the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Groovy) has never been easier! (by datafaker-net)

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faker.js		datafaker
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6	Mentions	16
609	Stars	1,025
-	Growth	5.7%
4.6	Activity	9.4
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

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.

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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 2022-01-09.

Open source maintainer pulls the plug on NPM packages colors and faker, now what
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2022
Faker.JS is dead. I created "BluffMaster"
2 projects | /r/javascript | 6 Jan 2022
Would anyone help revive faker.js?
1 project | /r/webdev | 6 Jan 2022

Are you involved with this fork at all?
No more free work from Marak – Pay Me or Fork This · faker.js
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2022
Faker.js gets erased
8 projects | /r/javascript | 4 Jan 2022

The lifehack I learnt today was to view the repo over wayback machine :-) To confirm that https://github.com/withshepherd/faker.js has all the commits that internet archive knows about.

datafaker

Posts with mentions or reviews of datafaker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.

FLaNK AI Weekly for 29 April 2024
44 projects | dev.to | 29 Apr 2024
Built a library to help generate test pojos with relevant but random data. I’d love some feedback.
7 projects | /r/java | 30 Apr 2023

Looks like that link doesn't actually go where it says, try this https://github.com/datafaker-net/datafaker
The Icculus Microgrant is giving out 250 dollar grants to open source projects, please brag about your project(s) in this thread so I can see them!
63 projects | /r/programming | 3 Mar 2023

Give it a try https://github.com/datafaker-net/datafaker
datafaker VS holodb - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 8 Jan 2023
Instancio 2.2.0 released
5 projects | /r/java | 3 Jan 2023

Looks a lot like DataFaker Any pros and cons or differences compared to this?
Datafaker: Generating fake data for the Java, Kotlin, Scala
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2022
Java: Automating data setup in unit tests
2 projects | /r/java | 31 Oct 2022

Great library, and thanks for sharing. I maintain something add similar but different (https://www.datafaker.net), and it would be interesting to be able to use these libraries together for example.
Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2022
Seasoned java developer here. Planning to learn Kotlin. What are some good open source Kotlin projects I can contribute to?
3 projects | /r/Kotlin | 12 Jun 2022

For example, I run a project (https://www.datafaker.net), which is currently a Java application, but we'd like to extend it with a Kotlin module.
Open source Java projects
5 projects | /r/java | 24 Feb 2022

I'm running a project myself, https://www.datafaker.net, a project to generate real looking test data.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing faker.js and datafaker you can also consider the following projects:

cargo-crev - A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo (Rust) package manager.

Java Faker - Brings the popular ruby faker gem to Java

Faker.js - What really happened with Aaron Swartz?

JSON-Schema Faker - JSON-Schema + fake data generators

colors.js - get colors in your node.js console

instancio - A library that creates fully populated objects for your unit tests.

Apache Camel - Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.

Mockneat - MockNeat - the modern faker lib.

wp-plugin-leaflet-map - Add leaflet maps to Wordpress with shortcodes

Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

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cargo-show-asm - cargo subcommand showing the assembly, LLVM-IR and MIR generated for Rust code