Is faker still maintained?

No — faker stopped being maintained around January 2022. @faker-js/faker is a community fork that picked faker up and carried it on.

• maintained fork
• high confidence
• drop-in

Is there a maintained fork of faker?

@faker-js/faker is a community fork that picked faker up and carried it on. @faker-js/faker is close enough to a drop-in replacement that most projects only change the dependency and the import.

How to migrate from faker to @faker-js/faker

Replace the dependency with @faker-js/faker and change require('faker') to const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker'); the generator API is otherwise the same as faker 5.5.3.

Why faker is on this list

In January 2022 the original author removed the faker source from GitHub and published a 6.6.6 release that no longer worked, which broke builds across the ecosystem. Eight contributors formed the faker-js organisation, restored the code from the last good release and now publish it as @faker-js/faker. The unscoped faker package has received no releases since 6.6.6 on 5 January 2022.

The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.

faker alternatives

Beyond the primary recommendation, these are credible for faker's use case:

• chance — view on npm
• @ngneat/falso — view on npm

Check your own project for faker

npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintained

Run that in the directory holding your lockfile. If faker is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.

Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.

Evidence

Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:

• faker-js announcement: what happened to faker and who maintains it nowfakerjs.dev
• faker-js/faker repository (the maintained fork)github.com
• npm: faker, last published 5 January 2022 at 6.6.6npmjs.com

Packages related to faker

• colorsMaintained fork: @colors/colors · unmaintained since January 2022
• standard-versionMaintained fork: commit-and-tag-version · unmaintained since May 2022
• eslint-plugin-nodeMaintained fork: eslint-plugin-n · unmaintained since March 2020
• uglify-esMaintained fork: terser · unmaintained since February 2018
• angularReimplementation: @angular/core · unmaintained since January 2022

See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.