nevarek / user-generator

Generates dummy user data and stores it in a file

user-generator

A simple npm package to generate a list of mock user accounts and store it into a CSV file.

The user accounts have the following keys/headers:

• firstName
• lastName
• email
• favoriteAnimal
• profession

Emails are always in the format of "first initial + lastName@domain" and pick from a small set of domains to increase similarity. Same with favorite animals.

Setup

You'll need Node.js, which comes with npm. You can optionally use yarn as the package manager instead.

Once you have the package manager and the needed node.js binary, run npm install or yarn install

Usage

Once the dependencies are installed, you can run the index file from a CLI:

node src/index.js <number of accounts to generate>

By default, the script generates 100 accounts.

Output CSV will be in the root directory in a file called users.csv

Additional Notes

• This script is not suitable for generating a large amount of records. If this is the case, you would probably want to stream the data using a gzip library to write a compressed file, which isn't supported by this script or the csv-writer library.