Faker library incident

[bartosjiri]

Looks like the Faker.js library has been either compromised or discontinued in a strange manner.

I believe it would be the best to replace this library, since it is provided as a parameter into entity factories. What are some suitable alternatives?

[jorgebodega]

Yes, I saw the incident. Quite strange.

In this library, there is no solution, since it cannot be deployed. The only workaround is to use faker on version 5.5.3, the last stable one, as an independent module:

import * as faker from 'faker' // USE THIS
...
define(Pet, (faker: typeof Faker) => { // DO NOT USE THIS
  ...
})

faker could be installed with npm i [email protected] since is still available on NPM registries

[bartosjiri]

Closing in favor of #201