Create utility function to generate N random users for component testing

[antoniolofiego]

Reasoning

While the backend APIs are a WIP, we can have a function that easily generates mock data for users in the shape we need to develop the frontend.

Basic functionality

It should return a JSON file that includes a user-specified number of profiles, including links to a profile image and all the data that the regular profile API would return.

What could work

Unsplash for random user images, Mockaroo or casual for data generation. Given that this should be programmatic, casual might work best.

[antoniolofiego]

random-profile-generator is a suitable package that could be tweaked for our use case.

[antoniolofiego]

StyleGAN-based plugin or LoremPicsum for profile image generation.

[quinceleaf]

@antoniolofiego I've used Faker for many projects in the past, dial up whatever type of data you want. The repo I linked to is for python (since that's what I've used before) but it was preceded/inspired by Faker modules for several other langs, too