Improve repository setup

.gitignore

@@ -1,7 +1 @@
-node_modules
-.env
-.specstory/
 .DS_Store
-playwright-report/
-.vscode/
-test-results/

.vscode/extensions.json

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+{
+  "recommendations": [
+    "ms-playwright.playwright",
+    "ms-python.python",
+    "ritwickdey.liveserver"
+  ]
+}

.vscode/settings.json

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+{
+  "liveServer.settings.root": "front-end/",
+  "python.defaultInterpreterPath": "backend/.venv/bin/python"
+}

backend/README.md

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 1. In the `backend` directory, create a file named `.env` with values for the following environment variables:
    * `JWT_SECRET_KEY`: Any random string.
-   * `PGPASSWORD`: Any random string.
-   * `PGUSER`: `postgres`, assuming you're using the bundled docker-based database, or whatever user you need if you have a custom postgres set up.
-   * Optionally, `PGDATABASE`, `PGHOST`, and `PGPORT` if you're not using default postgres values.
+   * `POSTGRES_PASSWORD`: Any random string.
+   * `POSTGRES_USER`: `postgres`, assuming you're using the bundled docker-based database, or whatever user you need if you have a custom postgres set up.
+   * Optionally, `POSTGRES_DB`, `POSTGRES_HOST`, and `POSTGRES_PORT` if you're not using default postgres values.
 2. Make a virtual environment: `python3 -m venv .venv`
 3. Activate the virtual environment: `. .venv/bin/activate`
 4. Install dependencies: `pip install -r requirements.txt`

backend/data/connection.py

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 @contextmanager
 def db_cursor():
     with psycopg2.connect(
-        dbname=os.getenv("PGDATABASE"),
-        user=os.getenv("PGUSER"),
-        password=os.environ["PGPASSWORD"],
-        host=os.getenv("PGHOST", "127.0.0.1"),
-        port=os.getenv("PGPORT"),
+        dbname=os.getenv("POSTGRES_DB"),
+        user=os.getenv("POSTGRES_USER"),
+        password=os.environ["POSTGRES_PASSWORD"],
+        host=os.getenv("POSTGRES_HOST", "127.0.0.1"),
+        port=os.getenv("POSTGRES_PORT"),
     ) as conn:
         with conn.cursor() as cur:
             yield cur

backend/requirements.txt

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 blinker==1.9.0
+certifi==2025.4.26
 cffi==1.17.1
+charset-normalizer==3.4.2
 click==8.1.8
 cryptography==44.0.1
 Flask==3.1.0
 flask-cors==5.0.1
 Flask-JWT-Extended==4.7.1
+idna==3.10
 itsdangerous==2.2.0
 Jinja2==3.1.5
 MarkupSafe==3.0.2
+psycopg2==2.9.10
 pycparser==2.22
 PyJWT==2.10.1
 python-dotenv==1.0.1
+requests==2.32.3
+urllib3==2.4.0
 Werkzeug==3.1.3

db/create-schema.sh

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 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &> /dev/null && pwd)"
 
-export PGPASSWORD="$(cat "${SCRIPT_DIR}/../backend/.env" | grep ^PGPASSWORD= | cut -d= -f2-)"
-
-psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U postgres -f "${SCRIPT_DIR}/schema.sql"
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR/../backend/.env"
+
+PGPASSWORD="$POSTGRES_PASSWORD" psql \
+  --dbname "${POSTGRES_DB:-postgres}" \
+  --file "${SCRIPT_DIR}/schema.sql" \
+  --host "${POSTGRES_HOST:-127.0.0.1}" \
+  --port "${POSTGRES_PORT:-5432}" \
+  --username "${POSTGRES_USER:-postgres}"

db/run.sh

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 BACKING_STORE_DIR="${SCRIPT_DIR}/pg_data"
 mkdir -p "${BACKING_STORE_DIR}"
 
-POSTGRES_PASSWORD="$(cat "${SCRIPT_DIR}/../backend/.env" | grep ^PGPASSWORD= | cut -d= -f2-)"
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR/../backend/.env"
 
-docker run -it --rm -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}" -p 5432:5432 -v "${BACKING_STORE_DIR}:/var/lib/postgresql/data" postgres:17.4
+docker run \
+  --env-file "$SCRIPT_DIR/../backend/.env" \
+  --interactive \
+  --publish "${POSTGRES_PORT:-5432}:5432" \
+  --rm \
+  --tty \
+  --volume "${BACKING_STORE_DIR}:/var/lib/postgresql/data" \
+  postgres:17.4

front-end/.gitignore

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+/node_modules/
+/playwright-report/
+/test-results/