Is it possible to use factory as module? about autofixturejs HOT 8 CLOSED

That's an interesting idea. One of the key features is the ability to customize the object the fixture returns to meet specific test criteria. How would you propose to do that with an import statement?

A PR would be welcome!

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You mean that you can override properties? I think that should still be possible.

At the moment I started using rosie, they allow both to import by ES6 modules and to use the singleton pattern that you are using.
See https://github.com/rosiejs/rosie#usage-in-es6

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Interesting. Rosie looks like it follows a lot of the same patterns autofixture does.

I do see some advantages to do it this way.

It's possible to simulate this now if you export the build function in the Rosie example

// user-fixture.js
import {AutoFixtures as Factory} from 'autofixture'
Factory.define('user', ['first_name','last_name','email']);
export default function(overrides) { return Factory.create('user', overrides) }

// test.js
import { UserFixture } from 'user-fixture';
const user = UserFixture({email: 'test3mail'});

It would not take much to refactor autofixture to make this easier.

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Yes although, multiple models can't define the user factory because of the singleton global namespace

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They might be completely different objects that happen to have the same name. If you're reusing the module system, I don't think you need to complicate that with a global namespace

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I just added this feature to v1.1. I haven't documented it yet, but there's a couple of tests to show the return object from a create call that can be exported

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