window.faker on faker.dev website

[andylacko]

Clear and concise description of the problem

I couldn't test the lib in 60sec on the internet.

Suggested solution

Inspired by lodash.com. Just assign window.faker = faker on the faker.dev web and write console.info('You can test faker by accessing it here from console'). There will be the most up-to-date lib directly on you web to test.

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[github-actions]

Thank you for your feature proposal.

We marked it as "waiting for user interest" for now to gather some feedback from our community:

• If you would like to see this feature be implemented, please react to the description with an up-vote (:+1:).
• If you have a suggestion or want to point out some special cases that need to be considered, please leave a comment, so we are aware about them.

We would also like to hear about other community members' use cases for the feature to give us a better understanding of their potential implicit or explicit requirements.

We will start the implementation based on:

• the number of votes (:+1:) and comments
• the relevance for the ecosystem
• availability of alternatives and workarounds
• and the complexity of the requested feature

We do this because:

• There are plenty of languages/countries out there and we would like to ensure that every method can cover all or almost all of them.
• Every feature we add to faker has "costs" associated to it:
  • initial costs: design, implementation, reviews, documentation
  • running costs: awareness of the feature itself, more complex module structure, increased bundle size, more work during refactors

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[ST-DDT]

Workaround: https://fakerjs.dev/new

[matthewmayer]

The library is a bit heavyweight to load it just in case someone opens the console.

I think we could rename Ecosystem>StackBlitz to something like "Try it!"

[Jason-bolt]

Exactly right @matthewmayer, I believe the word Ecosystem is not clear for users to identify