Generating Customized Sample Data to Use in the Development
A Guide to Creating Mock Data for Testing

My aim is create an array of objects with some fields and to use in the development process as sample data.
The following fields are required.
1. title as String
2. subTitle as String
3. shortDescription as String
4. content as String
5. groupIds as Array of Numbers
6. active as Boolean
7. id as Number
8. category as String
title- just appendingindexto theTitleas valuesubTitle- just appendingindexto theSub Titleas valuenumberOfObj- number of sample records required to createshortDescriptionandcontent- constant string definedgroupIds- array of numbers (array length not more than5and values not more than100.active- eithertrueorfalseid- same as indexcategory- one of the values ofcategoriesarray
const numberOfObj = 5;
const categories = ['Earth', 'Mars', 'Moon', 'Sun', 'Orion', 'Neptune'];
const shortDescription = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.'
const content = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit.
Totam, aliquid.'
let arrayOfObjects = [];
for (let i = 0; i < numberOfObj; i++) {
const template = {
title: `Title ${i}`,
subTitle: `Sub Title ${i}`,
shortDescription,
content,
groupIds: Array(Math.floor(Math.random() * 5)).fill(0).map(item => Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)),
active: Boolean(Math.floor(Math.random() * 1)),
id: i,
category: categories[Math.floor(Math.random() * categories.length)]
}
arrayOfObjects.push(template);
}
console.log(arrayOfObjects);
Sample
[
{
title: 'Title 0',
subTitle: 'Sub Title 0',
shortDescription: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
content: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Totam, aliquid.',
groupIds: [],
active: false,
id: 0,
category: 'Mars'
},
{
title: 'Title 1',
subTitle: 'Sub Title 1',
shortDescription: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
content: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Totam, aliquid.',
groupIds: [ 33, 96, 21, 57 ],
active: false,
id: 1,
category: 'Moon'
},
{
title: 'Title 2',
subTitle: 'Sub Title 2',
shortDescription: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
content: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Totam, aliquid.',
groupIds: [],
active: false,
id: 2,
category: 'Sun'
},
{
title: 'Title 3',
subTitle: 'Sub Title 3',
shortDescription: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
content: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Totam, aliquid.',
groupIds: [ 26, 72, 87 ],
active: false,
id: 3,
category: 'Sun'
},
{
title: 'Title 4',
subTitle: 'Sub Title 4',
shortDescription: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
content: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Totam, aliquid.',
groupIds: [ 54, 67, 13 ],
active: false,
id: 4,
category: 'Neptune'
}
]


