Sometimes when first developing a Drupal site, we may have the need to utilize dummy content to assist with testing form, functionality, and display. While it is nice to have real content, it can be difficult to have clients begin entering data while development is still taking place.

To help us with the tedious task of entering dummy content, we have a few choices. The first choice is to use a contribute module such as Devel (https://www.drupal.org/project/devel), which will generate content for us using the Drupal Admin UI. While this is a great module for development, it requires installing it, configuring it, and then using it.

A better solution is to use the Drupal Console, which we installed and configured in Chapter 1, Developer Workflow. Drupal Console will allow us to use the command-line to perform the same tasks the Devel module or manual content creation would require.