Faker for Pattern Lab-Node

This is a (still very early and totally in development) plugin that adds Faker data to your data.json file at build time.

Install

npm install --save plugin-node-faker

(Remember to run NPM run postinstall in your Pattern Lab base directory.)

Usage

In data.json, add Faker API methods as strings. Call the vars as you normally would inside Mustache (untested with other PL engines).

{
  "company" : {
    "name" : "faker.name.findName",
    "url" : "faker.internet.url"
  }
}

Some common Faker API methods

faker.[SECTION].[PROPERTY]([OPTIONS]) // `options` and parenthesis are optional
faker.name.findName // returns 'Neal Considine'
faker.name.firstName // returns 'Jaron'
faker.name.lastName // returns 'Will'
faker.internet.url // returns 'https://heath.org'
faker.lorem.paragraph // returns paragraph
faker.lorem.words(5) // returns 5 words
faker.lorem.text(500) // returns random number of characters less than 500. Could be 20 chars. Could be 200.

Check out Faker on NPM for all the different API methods (https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker). I've found Marak's Github wiki to be a little more detailed though (https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js/wiki).

Work in process

I have concerns that it isn't as optimal as it could be. If you have suggestions on how to improve it, I am all ears and ready to learn.

A tale of two listeners. For some reason, I can't update the listitems object and the pattern-specific data object with one listener. data.json doesn't care where it's changed, but these other two get operated on in different places.