Using the faker lib to add simulate data

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I’m on Meteor 1.5.1. I installed faker like so: $ meteor npm install --save faker.

In my package.json file, the faker lib is at version: 4.1.0

I import faker within Meteor’s server-side code like so:

import faker from 'faker';

class Test {
  constructor() {
    this.streetName = faker.address.streetName(); // => faker is = false here
  }
}

When I debug server-side node, the faker object is just false.

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Any attempt to access sub-object, like address, are of course just undefined.

Inside my <project-name>/node_modules directory, I can see the faker lib is present:

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What am I doing wrong?

The faker lib:

My issue in github:

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Weird. My testing repo uses faker, and I didn’t have any problems with it. You can take a look at the code and see if we do anything different:
https://github.com/Herteby/testing/blob/master/common/collection.js

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I import this way: import * as faker from 'faker/locale/de';

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Thanks @herteby & @softwarerero

Importing like this:

import * as faker from 'faker/locale/de';

Did no good. the faker object is still false.

5

I ended up using the Casual lib for generated data. Works fine.

6

I get error (bae on Vue)

import casual from 'casual'

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Casual doesn’t work in the browser.

Somehow, I’m also getting errors on importing faker. It works fine in Storybook, but when importing in meteor, server side, I always get that faker is undefined.

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I no longer use faker but my original import line was:
import * as faker from 'faker';

I could then use faker.whatever in my code