`npm install --save faker` and boom you have access to a huge variety of random test data, across different locales. Doesn't stretch my imagination to see the appeal.
I wonder if those who say "2 days?! Just npm install!" answered those questions, or if they googled "nodejs fake data generator" and installed it onto their businesses main product in the next 5 minutes.
1) Is the project built correctly
2) Is it the correct project for your issue
3) Is the project maintained
4) Is the project going to be maintained for the lifetime of your project
5) Is the project secure, and how risky is including it to your project?
And if these are all good then sure, it makes sense to include it in your project. And this is good engineering. But what people seem to do is go "Oh hey, I need to get a random name from a dictionary of names. Let's google that. Oooh faker!" without even thinking these questions through.
`npm install @faker-js/faker --save-dev`