Migrate to Netlify Today

Netlify announces the next evolution of Gatsby Cloud. Learn more

ContactSign Up
Official Plugin
View plugin on GitHub

gatsby-source-faker

This is a plugin that allows you to use faker.js to generate fake data for Gatsby sites. This could come in handy for creating example sites, documentation, or just to experiment with Gatsby.

Installation

npm install gatsby-source-faker

How to use it

Add gatsby-source-faker to the gatsby-config.js as following:

// In your gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-faker`,
      // derive schema from faker's options
      options: {
        schema: {
          name: ["firstName", "lastName"],
        },
        count: 3, // how many fake objects you need
        type: "NameData", // Name of the graphql query node
      },
    },
  ],
}

Example: Using Faker

© 2023 Gatsby, Inc.