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The 9 rules for writing good Unit tests

The 9 rules for writing good Unit tests

Hello! In the last months, my team and I have been working a lot on adding and improving our unit tests. But at some point, I realized that the main rules to master in order to write good unit tests were not always followed... So I thought that a little

Ionic vs Native vs Hybrid

Ionic vs Native vs Hybrid

I did a lot of research about that topic a few years ago. Should I keep using Ionic? Should I switch to native apps? Should I start working with an hybrid framework like React Native or Xamarin? After 5 years of working with Ionic daily, I feel pretty confident about

How to force the light or dark theme on Ionic

How to force the light or dark theme on Ionic

When I created my last app, "daily baby care" (an app for my wife and I, to track our 3 months infant meals & naps), I wanted to add a button in the app to force the light/dark theme. Something like this: So how would it work? Well, by default,

How to test your dark theme on Chrome

How to test your dark theme on Chrome

When you create a new Ionic app, there is a dark theme by default. On most of my apps, I used to remove it by default. I'm not a big fan of the dark themes as they make everything harder to read... But on my last app, I wanted to

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Hey dear humanoids, how are you doing today? You're probably wondering what you're doing here, right? Let me introduce myself. I'm Tommy, aka. HowTommy. I'm a 36yo senior software engineer and tech animator, former Scrum Master, working in a dev company in Lausanne, Switzerland. And also... I blog about tech,