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Take a short term contract or just start applying for gigs. If you've got a history as a dev, it's not something that evaporates because you haven't been doing it for a few years. Plenty of large companies will hire you if your historical references check out.

Same area. Different niche.

Reach out if you want to do a mock interview (or tbh you should just be interviewing with everyone to practice). Of the last few jobs I've had only about half had practical tests. If you take a contract it's unlikely they'll make you do one.