📦 Top alternatives for "colors" and "faker"

pkg.land 📦 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:01:28 +0000

For those out of the loop, there are recently some drama about the NPM packages colors and faker, and here are some articles reporting about it:

This blog is not to criticise on what happened, but to offer some help for developers who are interested in alternatives for colors and faker.

Top alternatives for `colors`

chalk

Terminal string styling done right

https://npm.im/chalk (131M weekly downloads)
https://github.com/chalk/chalk (17k stars)

colorette

Easily set your terminal text color & styles.

https://npm.im/colorette (16.9M weekly downloads)
https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette (1.4k stars)

kleur

The fastest Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors~!

https://npm.im/kleur (11.8M weekly downloads)
https://github.com/lukeed/kleur (1.3k stars)

👀 More suggestions ➡️ https://pkg.land/colors

Top alternatives for `faker`

chance

Chance - Utility library to generate anything random

https://npm.im/chance (589.3k weekly downloads)
https://github.com/chancejs/chancejs (5.8k stars)

casual

Fake data generator

https://npm.im/casual (57k weekly downloads)
https://github.com/boo1ean/casual (2.8k stars)

typeorm-seeding (useful if you use typeorm)

A delightful way to seed test data into your database

https://npm.im/typeorm-seeding (35k weekly downloads)
https://github.com/w3tecch/typeorm-seeding (700 stars)

👀 More suggestions ➡️ https://pkg.land/faker

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psst: https://pkg.land (beta) finds similar packages on NPM for you! check it out, go search moment, request and more 🚀

Do you know any good alternatives for colors or faker to suggest to the community? Leave a comment below!

📦 Introducing pkg.land (beta) - find similar packages on npm

pkg.land 📦 — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:52:24 +0000

Web developers, you probably use NPM everyday at work, but do you know how many packages are on NPM? (Hint: it is the biggest software registry in the world)

. . .

Got a number?

Today, NPM hosts about 1.8M packages. To put it in perspective, the second biggest registry is PyPI (Python Package Index) at about 350K packages. (Source: http://www.modulecounts.com/)

With so many packages to choose from, no wonder we have a saying called “JavaScript Fatigue”.

There are many ways we can improve this situation, and we will probably need all of them. But today, I would like to introduce you to…

https://pkg.land (beta) 🎉

Summary: pkg.land (beta) suggests you a list of similar packages based on a npm package you search.

Example: if you search moment, https://pkg.land/moment will suggest you similar packages like dayjs, date-fns and more.

Screenshot of search results of jest:

Important Notes

This project is still in its early and experimental stage, all features are likely to change in the future as more improvements will be made gradually
You will not find every package from npm on pkg.land. For example, @types/ packages are excluded.
Any feedbacks are welcome, leave a comment below or DM on https://twitter.com/pkgland

If you find the project useful, please share it with whoever might find it helpful too! 🌟
And give it a follow on Twitter, it would really help the project grow! 🪴

Forem: pkg.land 📦

📦 Top alternatives for "colors" and "faker"