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Icon selection for the tabs is a bit poor... Yea... I still wanted to use Cupertino icons so I got creative hehe

I honestly thought there would be a briefcase icon to use for the jobs tab at least but believe it or not I was not able to find it! Neither could I find the star for the top stories, which I ended up calling home, or a question mark for the ask tab. Oh well...

What I used for this

Let's make a list of all the libraries, patterns and nice stuff I wanna show off of this endeavour:

• BloC pattern implemented using the libraries bloc and flutter_bloc
• HTTP requests implemented using the chopper library - this allowed me to make my requests type safe
• Made all my model classes immutable and did not use equatable on purpose, I wanted to work with referential equality
• get_it for some pseudo dependency injection - this way all my services and blocs are proper singletons and I can decouple interfaces and implementations whenever I choose to do that
• I didn't really like this but I swear the alternative was worse... I made the Stories widget generic, also I made the StoriesBloc generic. This way I could make only one widget with the list and use the generic type as the parameter for requesting the BloC from GetIt. I had to go for generics because otherwise I would have had to use named instances and I could not get those to work. I did go through the stage of coding 5 components that did the same thing through a different BloC but that was embarrassing 🤭
• Since I don't display HTML I tried to remove HTML code from the text the API sent back to me... Came up with some basic regular expressions that did do the trick 90% of the times, the other 10% I decided to look away and pretend the world was perfect 🤪