Hi Frankie, thanks for trying Elm, glad you like it! > But why isn't the ability to create fuzzy records/data available outside > that package? What I usually do is to stub out the UI given a certain model > type. Being able to call fuzzy generators in my Main namespace to populate > the model makes it easier iterate on an initial design and can still be > very useful to run the application in 'mock mode'. Any chance we can see > the generators extracted in their own library?
I'm the co-author of elm-test. We're going to add a way to run fuzzers outside of elm-test <https://github.com/elm-community/elm-test/issues/82> but that's probably not what you want. The fuzzers are designed to produce edge cases, and most of the work that goes into them is around being able to shrink values into smaller forms to obtain a minimal test failure. Test data is fundamentally different from mocked data, especially if you want to be able to do UI design or take screenshots (i.e. for documenting your UI). I think you may want random-extra <http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-community/random-extra/latest> which includes a lot of similar helper functions, though it's still fairly primitive. Long-term, I would love for someone to port part of faker <https://github.com/stympy/faker> to Elm. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
