Blurbinator

Generate placeholder text that looks like this:

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It's pretty cute.

Quick Start

1. Install

   npm install blurbinator

2. Usage

   import { blurb, BlurbOptions } from "blurbinator";
   
   const options: BlurbOptions = { stubChar: "a" };
   blurb(options); // e.g. Generated: aaa aa aaaa a aa.

Quick Guide

export interface BlurbOptions<T> {
  /** RNG that outputs [0-1) */
  random?: () => number;
  /** Number of paragraphs to generate. */
  paragraphs?: [number, number];
  /** If set, preprocess the outputted paragraph array. */
  paragraphsConcat?: (arr: string[]) => T;
  /** Number of sentences per paragraph. */
  sentences?: [number, number];
  /** Number of words per sentence. */
  words?: [number, number];
  /** Number of characters in a word. */
  wordLen?: [number, number];
  /** Placeholder character. */
  stubChar?: string;
}