nanofaker

A performance-focused and lightweight faker library for TypeScript with comprehensive locale support.

Features

• ⚡️ Performance-focused - Built with speed and efficiency in mind
• 🌍 Multi-locale Support - Complete translations for 26 languages:
  • Afrikaans (af)
  • Arabic (ar)
  • Azerbaijani (az)
  • Czech (cs)
  • Danish (da)
  • German (de)
  • English (en)
  • Esperanto (eo)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Persian/Farsi (fa)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • French (fr)
  • Hebrew (he)
  • Hindi (hi)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Dutch (nl)
  • Norwegian (no)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Portuguese (pt)
  • Swedish (sv)
  • Filipino (tl)
  • Turkish (tr)
  • Ukrainian (uk)
  • Chinese (zh)
• 📦 Lightweight - Minimal dependencies and small bundle size
• 💪 Fully Typed - Written in TypeScript with comprehensive type definitions
• 🎯 Comprehensive Data - 16+ data categories including:
  • Person (names, job titles, genders)
  • Address (streets, cities, countries)
  • Company (names, industries, buzzwords)
  • Internet (emails, domains)
  • Phone numbers (numbers)
  • Food (dishes, ingredients, cuisines)
  • Animals (dogs, cats, birds, fish, etc.)
  • Sports (teams, athletes)
  • Music (genres, artists, songs)
  • Commerce (products, colors, materials)
  • Books (titles, authors, publishers)
  • Vehicles (manufacturers, models, types)
  • Words (adjectives, verbs, nouns, etc.)
  • Hacker/Tech (abbreviations, phrases)
  • System (file names, file types)
  • Science (elements, units, constants)

Installation

# npm
npm install nanofaker

# pnpm
pnpm add nanofaker

# bun
bun add nanofaker

# yarn
yarn add nanofaker

Usage

import { faker } from 'nanofaker'

// Generate random data with default locale (English)
const name = faker.person.fullName()
const email = faker.internet.email()
const address = faker.address.city()

console.log(name) // "John Doe"
console.log(email) // "john.doe@example.com"
console.log(address) // "New York"

Using Different Locales

import { faker } from 'nanofaker'

// Set locale globally
faker.setLocale('es') // Spanish
console.log(faker.person.fullName()) // "María García"

// Or create a new instance with a specific locale
const spanishFaker = new Faker({ locale: 'es' })
const japaneseFaker = new Faker({ locale: 'ja' })
const chineseFaker = new Faker({ locale: 'zh' })

console.log(spanishFaker.person.fullName()) // "Carlos López"
console.log(japaneseFaker.person.fullName()) // "田中太郎"
console.log(chineseFaker.person.fullName()) // "王伟"

Available Locales

• af - Afrikaans
• ar - Arabic
• az - Azerbaijani
• cs - Czech
• da - Danish
• de - German
• en - English
• eo - Esperanto
• es - Spanish
• fa - Persian/Farsi
• fi - Finnish
• fr - French
• he - Hebrew
• hi - Hindi
• it - Italian
• ja - Japanese
• ko - Korean
• nl - Dutch
• no - Norwegian
• pl - Polish
• pt - Portuguese
• sv - Swedish
• tl - Filipino
• tr - Turkish
• uk - Ukrainian
• zh - Chinese

API Examples

import { faker } from 'nanofaker'

// Person
faker.person.firstName() // Random first name
faker.person.firstName({ gender: 'male' }) // Random male first name
faker.person.firstName({ gender: 'female' }) // Random female first name
faker.person.firstName({ gender: 'neutral' }) // Random neutral first name
faker.person.firstNameMale() // Random male first name
faker.person.firstNameFemale() // Random female first name
faker.person.firstNameNeutral() // Random neutral first name
faker.person.lastName() // Random last name
faker.person.fullName() // Random full name
faker.person.fullName({ gender: 'male' }) // Random full name with male first name
faker.person.fullName({ gender: 'female' }) // Random full name with female first name
faker.person.fullName({ prefix: true }) // Random full name with prefix
faker.person.fullName({ suffix: true }) // Random full name with suffix
faker.person.gender() // Random gender
faker.person.jobTitle() // Random job title
faker.person.prefix() // Random prefix (Mr., Mrs., etc.)
faker.person.suffix() // Random suffix (Jr., Sr., etc.)

// Address
faker.address.street() // Random street name
faker.address.city() // Random city
faker.address.state() // Random state/province
faker.address.country() // Random country
faker.address.zipCode() // Random ZIP/postal code
faker.address.direction() // Random direction (North, South, etc.)

// Company
faker.company.name() // Random company name
faker.company.industry() // Random industry
faker.company.buzzword() // Random business buzzword

// Internet
faker.internet.email() // Random email address
faker.internet.domainName() // Random domain name
faker.internet.url() // Random URL

// Phone
faker.phone.number() // Random phone number

// Food
faker.food.dish() // Random dish name
faker.food.ingredient() // Random ingredient
faker.food.cuisine() // Random cuisine type
faker.food.dessert() // Random dessert
faker.food.fruit() // Random fruit
faker.food.vegetable() // Random vegetable
faker.food.meat() // Random meat
faker.food.spice() // Random spice

// Animal
faker.animal.dog() // Random dog breed
faker.animal.cat() // Random cat breed
faker.animal.bird() // Random bird species
faker.animal.fish() // Random fish species
faker.animal.horse() // Random horse breed
faker.animal.rabbit() // Random rabbit breed
faker.animal.insect() // Random insect

// Sport
faker.sport.sport() // Random sport name
faker.sport.team() // Random team name
faker.sport.athlete() // Random athlete name

// Music
faker.music.genre() // Random music genre
faker.music.artist() // Random artist name
faker.music.song() // Random song title
faker.music.instrument() // Random instrument

// Commerce
faker.commerce.product() // Random product name
faker.commerce.adjective() // Random product adjective
faker.commerce.material() // Random material
faker.commerce.department() // Random department
faker.commerce.color() // Random color

// Book
faker.book.title() // Random book title
faker.book.author() // Random author name
faker.book.publisher() // Random publisher
faker.book.genre() // Random book genre
faker.book.series() // Random book series
faker.book.review() // Random book review

// Vehicle
faker.vehicle.manufacturer() // Random vehicle manufacturer
faker.vehicle.model() // Random vehicle model
faker.vehicle.type() // Random vehicle type
faker.vehicle.fuel() // Random fuel type
faker.vehicle.bicycle() // Random bicycle type

// Word
faker.word.adjective() // Random adjective
faker.word.adverb() // Random adverb
faker.word.conjunction() // Random conjunction
faker.word.interjection() // Random interjection
faker.word.noun() // Random noun
faker.word.preposition() // Random preposition
faker.word.verb() // Random verb

// Hacker/Tech
faker.hacker.abbreviation() // Random tech abbreviation
faker.hacker.adjective() // Random tech adjective
faker.hacker.noun() // Random tech noun
faker.hacker.verb() // Random tech verb
faker.hacker.ingverb() // Random tech -ing verb
faker.hacker.phrase() // Random tech phrase

// System
faker.system.fileName() // Random file name
faker.system.fileType() // Random file type

// Science
faker.science.chemicalElement() // Random chemical element
faker.science.unit() // Random unit of measurement
faker.science.constant() // Random scientific constant
faker.science.field() // Random scientific field

Command Line Interface

nanofaker includes a powerful CLI for generating fake data from the terminal.

Installation

# Global installation
npm install -g nanofaker

# Or use with npx
npx nanofaker [command]

Quick Examples

# Generate a random name
nanofaker generate person fullName

# Generate 5 emails in Spanish
nanofaker generate internet email --locale es --count 5

# Generate 10 test users as JSON
nanofaker batch 10

# List all available categories
nanofaker categories

# List methods for a category
nanofaker methods food

Available Commands

• generate <category> <method> - Generate random data
• batch <count> - Generate multiple complete records
• categories - List all available categories
• methods <category> - List methods for a category
• locales - List all supported locales
• seed <seed> - Generate reproducible data with a seed
• version - Show version

Options

• --locale <locale> - Use a specific locale (af, ar, az, cs, da, de, en, eo, es, fa, fi, fr, he, hi, it, ja, ko, nl, no, pl, pt, sv, tl, tr, uk, zh)
• --count <count> - Number of items to generate
• --seed <seed> - Seed for reproducible results
• --json - Output as JSON
• --template <template> - Template for batch: user, product, address, company

More Examples

# Reproducible data with seed
nanofaker generate person fullName --seed 12345

# Generate products in JSON
nanofaker batch 5 --template product --json

# Generate Japanese food items
nanofaker generate food dish --locale ja --count 10

# Save to file
nanofaker batch 100 --template user > users.json

See the CLI documentation for complete details.

Performance Benchmarks

nanofaker is designed for performance and efficiency:

Performance:

• ✅ 9 out of 9 benchmarks won
• ⚡ 9.28x faster than @faker-js/faker on average
• 🚀 34.04M ops/s for country generation
• 🔑 20.50M ops/s for UUID generation (41.2x faster!)
• 📧 10.44M ops/s for email generation (15.5x faster!)
• 📊 6.90ms to generate 10,000 complex user objects

Package Size:

• 📦 174 KB published (core package only)
• 🎯 24.7x smaller than @faker-js/faker (4.29 MB)
• 🪶 38 files vs 231 in @faker-js/faker
• 🔌 Modular locales - install only what you need

Quick Comparison

Operation	nanofaker	@faker-js/faker	Speedup
UUID Generation	20.50M ops/s	497.69K ops/s	41.2x faster
Full Name Generation	24.76M ops/s	678.37K ops/s	36.5x faster
Country Generation	34.04M ops/s	1.05M ops/s	32.4x faster
Email Generation	10.44M ops/s	674.02K ops/s	15.5x faster
Complex Objects (10k)	6.90ms	64.04ms	9.3x faster

Running Benchmarks

# Run all benchmarks
bun run bench

# Results are compared against:
# - @faker-js/faker
# - chance
# - casual
# - @ngneat/falso

Detailed Documentation:

• 📊 BENCHMARKS.md - Complete performance results and methodology

Testing

bun test

Development

# Install dependencies
bun install

# Run tests
bun test

# Build the library
bun run build

# Lint code
bun run lint

Changelog

Please see our releases page for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Community

For help, discussion about best practices, or any other conversation that would benefit from being searchable:

Discussions on GitHub

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Join the Stacks Discord Server

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Our address: Stacks.js, 12665 Village Ln #2306, Playa Vista, CA 90094, United States 🌎

Sponsors

We would like to extend our thanks to the following sponsors for funding Stacks development. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please reach out to us.

• JetBrains
• The Solana Foundation

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.

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