---
url: /docs/replacements/faker.md
description: >-
  Modern replacements for the unmaintained faker package generating massive
  amounts of fake (but realistic) data
---

# Replacements for `faker`

## `@faker-js/faker`

[`@faker-js/faker`](https://github.com/faker-js/faker) is a direct, community‑maintained fork of `faker` with new features, bugfixes, modern ESM/CJS builds, and updated data/locales.

```ts
const faker = require('faker') // [!code --]
const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker') // [!code ++]

faker.datatype.boolean()

faker.image.avatar()
```