node.js getting module_not_found faker

Question

I am new to Node.js. I want to create mysql connection and insert data into the database and access it later. I installed, node.js, then using npm installed 'mysql' and 'faker'. Using node.js I successfully connected to mysql, created database and tables(code in mysql1.js in the folder NODE-JS).

Then I went ahead to create fake data (code in fake_data.js) to insert into the table. screenshot of vscode

var faker = require("faker");

let first_name = faker.name.firstName(); let last_name = faker.name.lastName();

console.log(Employee: ${prefix} ${first_name} ${last_name} ${suffix});

But this time I got error

 code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  path: 'D:\\DATABASES\\NODE-JS\\node_modules\\faker\\package.json',
  requestPath: 'faker'

package.json file contains the following dependencies

{
  "dependencies": {
    "faker": "^6.6.6",
    "mysql": "^2.18.1"
  },
  "name": "node-js",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "app.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "description": ""
}

I tried,

var faker = require("./faker"); 

even then it throws error

please help me to rectify the problem. thanks

Answer 1

The owner of faker deleted it from GitHub at v6.6.6
You can see that here:
https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/

So it is up to the community to complete it
The new repository:
https://github.com/faker-js/faker

This is the official, stable fork of Faker.

Installation

Please replace your faker dependency with @faker-js/faker.

npm install @faker-js/faker --save-dev

Node.js

const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');