Faker for Pattern Lab-Node

This is a plugin that adds Faker data to your data.json file at build time.

Install

npm install --save @g749/plugin-node-faker

(Remember to run NPM run postinstall in your Pattern Lab base directory.)

Usage

In data.json, add Faker API methods as strings. Call the vars as you normally would inside Mustache (untested with other PL engines).

{
  "company" : {
    "name" : "faker.name.findName",
    "url" : "faker.internet.url"
  }
}

Some common Faker API methods

@faker.[SECTION].[PROPERTY]([OPTIONS])@ // `options` and parenthesis are optional
@faker.name.findName@ // returns 'Neal Considine'
@faker.name.firstName@ // returns 'Jaron'
@faker.name.lastName@ // returns 'Will'
@faker.internet.url@ // returns 'https://heath.org'
@faker.lorem.paragraph@ // returns paragraph
@faker.lorem.words(5)@ // returns 5 words
@faker.lorem.text(500)@ // returns random number of characters less than 500. Could be 20 chars. Could be 200.

Check out Faker on NPM for all the different API methods (https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker). I've found Marak's Github wiki to be a little more detailed though (https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js/wiki).

Work in process

A tale of two listeners. For some reason, I can't update the listitems object and the pattern-specific data object with one listener. data.json doesn't care where it's changed, but these other two get operated on in different places.

Developing

Use the following to install dev dependecies:

PATTERLAB_PLUGIN_DEV=@g749/plugin-node-faker npm install