Getting Started

Overview

Faker is a popular library that generates fake (but reasonable) data that can be used for things such as:

• Unit Testing
• Performance Testing
• Building Demos
• Working without a completed backend

Faker was originally written in Perl and this is the JavaScript port. Faker is also available as a library for Ruby, Java, and Python.

This documentation only covers the JavaScript implementation of Faker.

Environments

You can run Faker in the browser, or in Node.js. Faker v9.0 requires Node.js version 18 or above. Both ESM and CommonJS imports are available.

Installation

Install it as a Dev Dependency using your favorite package manager.

npm

npm install @faker-js/faker --save-dev

pnpm

pnpm add @faker-js/faker --save-dev

yarn

yarn add @faker-js/faker --dev

Faker Modules

Faker has three types of modules:

• Modules for basic datatypes: datatype, date, number and string
• Topic specific modules, such as animal, food and many more
• Lastly, the helpers module, with various utility methods to use with your own data (or data generated by other Faker methods)

For a full list of modules, go to our Api Search page.

If you would like to know how to use Faker, go to our Usage Guide page.

Community

If you have questions or need help, reach out to the community via Discord and GitHub Discussions.

You can see awesome things related to the Faker community at Awesome Faker.