Show HN: Generate JSON mock data for testing/initial app development

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  • faker

    Generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js (by faker-js)

  • JSON-Schema Faker

    JSON-Schema + fake data generators

  • There’s also json-schema-faker which is pretty cool.

    https://github.com/json-schema-faker/json-schema-faker

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • trex

    Enforce structured output from LLMs 100% of the time (by automorphic-ai)

  • A friend of mine built a tool called Trex that you might find helpful, check it out here: https://github.com/automorphic-ai/trex

    It's very consistent at generating templated data.

  • outlines

    Structured Text Generation

  • We provide this in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines.

  • prism

    Turn any OpenAPI2/3 and Postman Collection file into an API server with mocking, transformations and validations. (by stoplightio)

  • I use https://stoplight.io/open-source/prism with x-faker properties in my OpenAPI specs to mock APIs with dynamic content.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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