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GSoC 2022 Final report In this Google Summer of Code 2022 project, I developed the CloudStack-Terraform-Provider by expanding the list of data sources and resources supported by CloudStack. This report summarizes the work conducted from May to September 2022. Project Details Organization: Apache Software Foundation Project: CloudStack Terraform Provider - Add datasources for the existing resources Student: Daman Arora Mentors: Boris Stoyanov, Pearl Dsilva, Harikrishna Technologies used: Go language, Terraform, Apache Cloudstack, Cloud-Monkey Introduction Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code technology that allows users to build immutable infrastructure....

Side Effect Runs Only Once After Initial Render You may want to run the side effect just once after the initial render. A typical case will be fetching data making an API call, and storing the response in the state variable after the initial render. You do not want to make this API call again. You can pass an empty array as the second argument to the useEffect hook to tackle this use case....

In essence, a react component consists of a function that executes from top to bottom and handles bringing something onto the screen or responding to user input, such as clicking. Whether you use state or other functions in such a function, everything in a component is concerned with bringing something to the screen. A side effect is anything else that occurs within an application. For example, sending an HTTP request or storing something in the browser’s storage....

Using Fragments to solve the problem of </div> Soup When writing a component in React, you can’t have more than one root JSX element. So if you return a value or if you store a value in a variable, that value must only be exactly one JSX element not two or three or four side by side adjacent elements. Due to which, you have to wrap a <div> around all the elements in the return statement, this technically make the return statement to return only one value as a whole....

Type Annotations The following example declares variables with different data types, where the type is specified using :Type syntax after the name of the variable, parameter or property. : var age: number = 32; // number variable var name: string = "John";// string variable var isUpdated: boolean = true;// Boolean variable function display(id:number, name:string) { console.log("Id = " + id + ", Name = " + name); } var employee : { id: number; name: string; }; employee = { id: 100, name : "John" } These are type annotations....