backbone-fill-collection

Backbone-Fill-Collection makes it easy to generate collections with mock data quickly for prototyping. It sends requests to filltext.com and inserts the results into a backbone collection on every fetch.

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Usage

Extend a collection from Backbone.FillCollection and insert a fillWith property with a hash of parameters. The key will become the models key and it's value can be static or mocked with the FillText params. A full list of FillText's params can be found on their website.

var User = Backbone.Model.extend({
  defaults: {
    name: 'n/a',
    age: 'n/a',
    homeTown: 'n/a',
    email: 'n/a'
  }
});

var Users = Backbone.FillCollection.extend({
  model: User,

  fillWith: {
    // optional number of models to return, defaults to 5
    rows: 3,

    name: '{firstName}',
    homeTown: '{city}',
    email: '{email}',
    type: 'user'
  }
});    

Outputs

users = new Users();
users.fetch();

console.log(users.toJSON());
// logs:

[
  Object
    age: "n/a"
    email: "KSherstan@sit.net"
    homeTown: "Stl"
    name: "Alonzo"
    type: "user"
    __proto__: Object
  , 
  Object
    age: "n/a"
    email: "JWallace@neque.com"
    homeTown: "Fort Collins"
    name: "Marina"
    type: "user"
    __proto__: Object
  , 
  Object
    age: "n/a"
    email: "GRamirez@tellus.org"
    homeTown: "Siloam Springs"
    name: "Rick"
    type: "user"
    __proto__: Object
]