{"id":2355,"date":"2024-08-17T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rushfordgatheringspace.com\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2024-08-17T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T13:24:43","slug":"how-to-design-a-toggle-feature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rushfordgatheringspace.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/how-to-design-a-toggle-feature-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Design a Toggle Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\"><p>A toggle is a piece of technology that allows you to switch back and forth between two states or options. It&#8217;s often used in everyday technology such as computers and phones. Toggle is also used in software development to describe a feature that can be turned on and off without having to change the codebase.<\/p>\n<p>Feature toggles support dev teams as they write new features by leaving them inactive in production until they are ready for release, market testing or whatever else is needed next. This is an alternative to writing features on code branches and integrating them into trunk code which would require a lengthy QA and testing process.<\/p>\n<p>When designing a toggle it&#8217;s important to make sure that the toggle&#8217;s label is action oriented and that it has a binary answer that is either ON or OFF. This ensures that users are aware of what state the toggle is in and how to make it active again. 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