Allow Faker to Take Initial Seed on Construction

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Clear and concise description of the problem

As a developer I want to be able to directly provide a seed when creating a new faker instance. Currently I have to write a separate line mutation the faker instance to configure it the way I want. I feel like it would be good DX to directly create a desired faker instance without having to call additional configuration methods.

Suggested solution

Add initialSeed property to the faker constructor, which will set the seed of the internal randomizer instance on creation.

const faker = new Faker({ locale: [base] });
faker.seed(123);

// alternative
const faker = new Faker({ locale: [base], initialSeed: 123 });

Alternative

Make Faker#seed chainable and return a reference to the current instance. That way I can at leas write it in a shorter way.

// now
const faker = new Faker({ locale: [base] });
faker.seed(123);

// alternative
const faker = new Faker({ locale: [base] }).seed(123);

Additional context

Same could be argued for setDefaultRefDate which could be present as a parameter in Fakers constructor.

[github-actions]

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• and the complexity of the requested feature

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