zod4-mock

Deterministic, schema-driven mock data for Zod v4.

Same seed → same data, always. Field names like email, firstName, and createdAt automatically produce realistic values. Schemas can declare relations so IDs stay consistent across multiple API shapes — without any manual wiring.

Quick start

import { z } from "zod";
import { generate } from "zod4-mock";

const user = generate(
  z.object({
    id: z.uuid(),
    firstName: z.string(),
    email: z.email(),
    role: z.enum(["admin", "user"]),
    createdAt: z.date(),
  }),
);
// → { id: "3f2d…", firstName: "John", email: "john.smith42@…", role: "user", createdAt: Date }

No setup, no seed, no configuration. Field names drive the values — firstName gets a first name, email gets a valid email address, id gets a UUID.

Installation

npm install zod4-mock zod@^4

Seeded worlds

For tests, pin a seed so every run produces identical data:

import { createWorld } from "zod4-mock";

const world = createWorld({ seed: 42 });

const users = world.generate(z.array(UserSchema).min(5).max(20));
// Byte-identical output every run, every machine

Custom field values

Register matchers to control specific fields. ctx.gen gives you the full generator library with the PRNG already applied — no need to pass prng anywhere:

const world = createWorld({ seed: 42 }).withSchema(ProductSchema, {
  matchers: {
    name: (ctx) => ctx.gen.commerce.productName(),
    sku: (ctx) => `SKU-${ctx.gen.string.alphanumeric(6)}`,
    price: (ctx) => ctx.prng.int(100, 50_000), // cents, custom range
  },
});

const products = world.generate(z.array(ProductSchema).min(10));

Any field without a matcher falls through automatically: key-name heuristics first, then Zod type introspection.

Related schemas

Declare relations between schemas to keep foreign keys coherent across different API shapes:

const world = createWorld({ seed: 42 })
  .withSchema(PersonSchema)
  .withSchema(DocumentSchema, {
    relations: { author: PersonSchema },
    matchers: {
      authorId: (ctx) => ctx.related("author").personId,
      title: (ctx) => ctx.gen.word.sentence(),
    },
  });

const people = world.generate(z.array(PersonSchema).min(3));
const documents = world.generate(z.array(DocumentSchema).min(10));

// documents[*].authorId ∈ people[*].personId — guaranteed

Derived schemas

When two API shapes represent the same underlying entity, bind the second to the first with from. The source entity's data is available as ctx.source:

const world = createWorld({ seed: 42 })
  .withSchema(PersonSchema)
  .withSchema(PersonSummarySchema, {
    from: PersonSchema,
    matchers: {
      id: (ctx) => ctx.source.personId,
      displayName: (ctx) => `${ctx.source.firstName} ${ctx.source.lastName}`,
      initials: (ctx) => `${ctx.source.firstName[0]}${ctx.source.lastName[0]}`,
    },
  });

const people = world.generate(z.array(PersonSchema).min(5));
const summaries = world.generate(z.array(PersonSummarySchema));

// people[0].personId === summaries[0].id — always

Nested schemas compose

Register matchers for a schema once — they apply automatically wherever that schema appears, including nested inside other schemas:

const world = createWorld({ seed: 42 })
  .withSchema(AddressSchema, {
    matchers: {
      street: (ctx) => ctx.gen.location.street(),
      city: (ctx) => ctx.gen.location.city(),
      country: (ctx) => ctx.gen.location.countryCode(),
    },
  })
  .withSchema(PersonSchema); // has address: AddressSchema

// PersonSchema's address field uses AddressSchema's matchers automatically
const person = world.generate(PersonSchema);

Localization

Out of the box, zod4-mock produces simple English data — short curated name/word lists, no extras to install. For realistic, Markov-generated output (or a different language), install a locale package and pass it to createWorld:

npm install @zod4-mock/locale-en      # rich English (Markov names + words)
npm install @zod4-mock/locale-nl      # Dutch (Markov names, tussenvoegsels, € prices)

import { createWorld } from "zod4-mock";
import { en } from "@zod4-mock/locale-en";
import { nl } from "@zod4-mock/locale-nl";

createWorld({ seed: 42 }); // built-in minimal English
createWorld({ seed: 42, locale: en }); // full English, Markov-generated
createWorld({ seed: 42, locale: nl }); // Dutch

Build custom locales by overriding individual sections with extend() — see the API reference.

Features

• Zero-config — generate(schema) works with no setup, no imports beyond the schema
• Deterministic — same seed → identical output on every run and every machine
• Field-name heuristics — email, firstName, createdAt, userId, street, iban, vin, and 150+ more auto-generate realistic values
• Schema-driven — respects .min(), .max(), .email(), .uuid(), z.enum(), z.union(), z.optional(), z.discriminatedUnion(), and more
• Composable — nested schemas automatically use their registered matchers
• Relational — cross-schema ID consistency without any manual wiring
• ctx.gen — full generator library (person, internet, location, finance, commerce, …) pre-wired to the PRNG inside matchers
• Localizable — built-in minimal English default; opt-in Markov-backed locales (@zod4-mock/locale-en, @zod4-mock/locale-nl) and extend() helper for variants
• Per-field seeding — adding or removing schema fields never disturbs values of other fields
• Zod v4 native — built against zod@^4

Documentation

• Getting Started — step-by-step tutorial
• Concepts — world, schemas, relations, registry, determinism
• API Reference — complete reference for all exports
• Key-Based Field Heuristics — auto-generated values by field name
• Recipes — copy-pasteable patterns for common scenarios

Repository layout

• src/ — library core
• packages/locale-core, packages/locale-en, packages/locale-nl — optional locale packages
• playground/ — vitest scratch surface for trying library APIs
• site/ — SvelteKit homepage (/, /bench, /showcase, /table, /docs), deployed at gen-bench.vercel.app. Imported from the standalone gen-bench repo on 2026-06-03. To deploy, the Vercel project needs Root directory set to site and Install command pnpm install --frozen-lockfile; see wiki/backlog/inbox/B82-vercel-deploy-from-site-subdir.md.
• docs/ — shipped user-facing reference (the URLs above)
• wiki/ — build-time spec / Vibin workflow source of truth

License

MIT