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randimal

v1.0.0

Published

A random named animal generator

Downloads

29

Readme

randimal

A random animal name generator, forked from random-animal-name-generator.

import { generateRandomName } from 'randimal'

// In some async context...
const name = await generateRandomName()

console.log(name) // Geological Gnu

Differences

random-animal-name-generator hasn't been updated in awhile, so here's a list of adjustments:

Async by default

The word lists are absolutely massive, with previously upwards of 1700 animals and nearing 9000 adjectives. Loading these files is less of a problem in Node, but in the browser, we don't want to wait on these files to load with the main bundle.

To combat this, the animals list and adjectives lists are loaded via dynamic import, so you can rely on your bundler's chunking features to load the lists when their necessary. To support this, generateRandomName is now an async function.

In the future, I may consider a synchronous entry, but for now, I think this is an improvement.

Word lists are pre-optimized

Whenever random-animal-name-generator is included in your application, it sorts the animal and adjective word lists into new objects keyed by their starting letter. This is deterministic—the data never changes, and so we don't need to rearrange it every time! So, the word lists (moved into the data folder and converted to JS modules) are now sorted by first letter by default.

Other stuff

  • Removed (probably) all of the animal names that consist of multiple words. The smushed-together animal names were confusing to read.
  • Removed some made-up animal names... Not really sure where the data came from, but I performed Google searches on a number of them and came up with nothing. So, I took them out.
  • Capitalized all words on both word lists, since they're names.

Untouched Stuff

While the adjectives have been capitalized, there are still quite a number of... creative words in the list. It seems like it came from the Scribblenauts wiki, which is cool, but it'll take some effort to make sure there are only dictionary-acknowledged adjectives in this project.