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dylan-ipsum

v1.1.0

Published

A JavaScript module for generating passages of placeholder text from Bob Dylan lyrics.

Downloads

4

Readme

dylan-ipsum-npm

A JavaScript module for generating placeholder text from Bob Dylan lyrics.

Bob's catalogue has 136,392 words, 520 mentions of love, 52 mentions of law, and 5 mentions of ... country pie.

If you're just after some quick filler text without adding a package to your project, consider using the pretty app instead: https://www.dylanlyrics.app/

To show some ❤️ for this project, let's grab a coffee.

Enjoy!

Install

npm i dylan-ipsum

Usage

import DylanIpsum from "dylan-ipsum"

// Default settings
const bob = new DylanIpsum()

// Custom settings
const bob2 = new DylanIpsum({
  years: [1963, 1967],
  titleLength: [5, 10],
  phraseLength: [10, 20],
  paragraphLength: [100, 150]
})

bob.words(4)        // ["Ramble", "Highway", "Wiggle", "Mama"]
bob.titles(3)       // ["Hurricane", "Masters of War, New Morning"]
bob.phrases(2)      // ["With no direction home", "Purple clover, Queen Anne’s lace"]
bob.paragraphs(1)   // ["I’m sailin’ away my own true love. I'm sailing away in the morning ..."]

You can also override default lengths on a function call:

bob.titles(3, [3, 4])     // 3 titles of 3 or 4 words
bob.phrases(5, [10, 20])  // 5 phrases between 10–20 words
bob.paragraphs(7, 120)    // 7 paragraphs of exactly 120 words

Functions

The DylanIpsum class contains 4 functions. Each return an array of n length:

  • bob.words(n) – A capitalised word. Good for menu items and small lists.
  • bob.titles(n) – A song title. Good for titles, lists, names.
  • bob.phrases(n) – A single line. Good for lists, quotes, attributes.
  • bob.paragraphs(n) – A block of lyrics. Good for body content.

Options

All options are [min, max] arrays. A single value can also be provided.

The values for paragraphLength and phraseLength denote word count.

Default values shown below.

const options = {
  "paragraphLength": [50, 200],
  "phraseLength": [3, 15],
  "titleLength": [1, 14],
  "years": [1962, 2020]
}