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Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

Password Autofill on a React Native Expo app

Developing an app to accompany our website, worried that we would lose people in the transition if they couldn't remember their password, we were looking to make our app do Password AutoFill, a feature in iOS.

A talk from WWDC introducing the feature: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/206/

It works well, but there were a few bumps in the road making it work for React Native on Expo, so here are some notes to help out.

Apple's docs are here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_autofill and they say something like this:

How to change your commit messages in Git?

At some point you’ll find yourself in a situation where you need edit a commit message. That commit might already be pushed or not, be the most recent or burried below 10 other commits, but fear not, git has your back 🙂.

Not pushed + most recent commit:

git commit --amend

This will open your $EDITOR and let you change the message. Continue with your usual git push origin master.

Hexadecimal color code for transparency

How to set transparency with hex value ?

For example, you want to set 40% alpha transparence to #000000 (black color), you need to add 66 like this #66000000.

	#!/bin/bash

	# Get the current branch name
	current_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`

	# Search Jira ID in a pattern such a "feature/ABCD-123-my-feature"
	id=$(echo $current_branch \| sed -nE 's,[a-z]+/([A-Z]+-[0-9]+)-.+,\1,p')

	# only prepare commit message if pattern matched and jiraId was found
	if [[ ! -z $id ]]; then

	import React, { Component } from "react";
	import { WebView } from "react-native-webview";
	import { Button, Modal, View } from "react-native";

	// Author: Hetmann Wilhelm Iohan
	// Email: [email protected]
	// Web: https://react-ui-kit.com
	// YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/react-ui-kit

	// This is a basic example showing how to use Zendesk Chat Widget using a webview inside a modal and a html code

	import axios from 'axios';
	import firebase from 'react-native-firebase';

	axios.interceptors.request.use(async function (config) {
	const httpMetric = firebase.perf().newHttpMetric(config.url, config.method);
	config.metadata = { httpMetric };

	// add any extra metric attributes if needed
	// await httpMetric.putAttribute('userId', '12345678');