Feature: Add functionality to seed data

[cmwhited]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be a nice addition, since this lib is used largely for quick prototyping, to be able to seed some initial data of the generic type for the service.

Describe the solution you'd like
Create a seed method that takes an input: amount: number of how many records to seed (could have default value like 10). Method creates this amount of random records to store in memory to seed the service and provide a basic initial set of data.

[wesleygrimes]

Interesting idea, in the interim we could add a bulk create method called createMany that would take in an array of T objects. This is probably a broader need as well.

[wesleygrimes]

@cmwhited I can take this one on, so we are thinking about adding service.seed(10) and randomly generate records?

What are your thoughts about using a library like this one?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/factory.ts

[cmwhited]

Yeah that was my thought. Something like .seed(# of records to seed, default 10). That factory lib looks cool. I say go with it.

[cmwhited]

And, going back to the forFeature & forRoot discussion, the # of records could be part of the config so when the service is instantiated, it could seed the records based on the config.

[wesleygrimes]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 1.5.0 🎉

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