Linnia JSON File Generator

Welcome to the fake file generator! The Linnia Team threw this together so you could spend less time making fake data and more time building!

Customizing the script

In order to get this working for you, you should change three things:

1. Change numberOfFiles to equal the amount of files you want to generate
2. Change the fileSchema to generate the fake contents of the files that you need.
3. Change the fileName function to produce the name for the file that you want.

Number of files

This is just a number that tells the script how many files to generate:

const numberOfFiles = 10;

No need to over think it.

File Schema

This object is a little more complicated. You will define an object where the key is the name of the property you want in your JSON, and the value is a function that produces the value you want to appear in your JSON. For example:

const fileSchema = {
  name: () => 'Sammy'
}

Will generate a JSON file that looks like this:

{
  "name": "Sammy"
}

The example in index.js includes a library called Faker that is excellent at producing fake data. Documentation for it can be found here.

File Name

This function takes the generated file data as an argument, and produces the name of the file for that data. For the example provided in the index.js:

const generateFileName = (fileData) => fileData.name;

The name of the file will be ${fileData.name}.json.

To get started, head over to index.js and follow the steps provided in the comments.

Running the script

To run the script, you can run either:

npm run generate

or:

node index.js

All of the generated files will be added to the files folder.