fake-identity.js

Generate random identity objects including name, address, etc. This may be useful if you are trying to fill your application with random personal data.

Features

• Generates a single random identity or multiple identities in an array.
• Includes first and last names, email address, phone number, street, city, state, zip code, date of birth, sex, company, and department.
• Email address is based off of name.
• First name matches sex.
• All names, streets, and cities are commonly found in the US.
• States are weighted on population, so more populous states appear more often.
• Zip codes are loosely based on state. Zip codes are weird so it's not perfect, though.
• Date of birth will be between 18 and 60.
• Usable in the browser or Node.js.
• No dependencies.

Installation

Browser

Add the following to your page:

<script src="dist/fake-identity.js"></script>

This will make a new global variable named Identity available.

Node

Run

npm install fake-identity

Add the following to your application:

var Identity = require('fake-identity');

Usage

Once installed, just use Identity.generate() in your scripts to get an identity object with random values. The returned object looks like this:

{
  firstName: "Amelia",
  lastName: "Wright",
  emailAddress: "[email protected]",
  phoneNumber: "(555) 555-0155",
  street: "7327 Central Avenue",
  city: "Oxford",
  state: "TX",
  zipCode: "75045",
  dateOfBirth: Fri Jul 20 1962 00:00:00,
  sex: "female",
  company: "Contoso Pharmaceuticals",
  department: "Legal"
}

You can also pass a number to generate more than one identity. Multiple identity objects are returned in an array like so:

Identity.generate(3);

[
  {
    firstName: ...
    lastName: ...
    ...
  },
  {
    firstName: ...
    lastName: ...
    ...
  },
  {
    firstName: ...
    lastName: ...
    ...
  }
]

Tests

Run gulp test

Please note that, to run tests, you must clone the repository in git. Tests are not included in the NPM module.

To do

• Add configuration options

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright © 2014 Travis Horn

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