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🚀 Infrastructure & CI/CD

• Production-Ready Dockerization: Introduced Gunicorn and Uvicorn for the backend, optimized Dockerfiles for production builds, and
  added an entrypoint.sh for reliable container startups.
• CI/CD Pipeline Enhancements:
  • Updated GitHub Actions to generate and upload coverage reports even on failure.
  • Temporarily disabled Cypress E2E tests to focus on stabilizing unit and integration tests.
  • Configured Codecov integration for both frontend and backend.
• Environment Management: Added comprehensive .env-example and handled API URL injection more robustly across environments.

🔧 Backend Improvements

• Security & Privacy: Improved user privacy by ensuring sensitive data is handled backend-side and not unnecessarily exposed to the
  frontend.
• Enhanced Logic: Refactored password change logic and fixed UserUpdateSerializer to properly support password updates.
• Reliability: Fixed bugs in event creation (missing created_by handling) and established that deleting a user does not cascade-delete
  their created events.
• Code Quality: Extensive linting of models, serializers, and views to improve maintainability.

💻 Frontend Architecture & UI

• Centralized API Layer: Moved all backend fetches to a centralized src/api/api.ts and unified request logic using a shared
  axiosClient.
• Architectural Cleanup:
  • Introduced the @context path alias for cleaner and more consistent imports.
  • Unified success/error messaging by replacing scattered state calls with a global handleSnackbar pattern.
• UI/UX Enhancements:
  • Added a collapsible sidebar for better screen utilization.
  • Smoothed navigation by replacing standard anchor tags with React Router Link components.
  • Refined the Calendar and Statistics views, including better pie chart rendering and layout adjustments.
• Intellisense: Added jsconfig.json to improve the developer experience with better path resolution.

🧪 Testing Overhaul

• Test Stability: Fixed all 51 frontend tests and 64 backend tests that were previously broken.
• Deprecation Fixes: Updated act() imports from react-dom/test-utils to react to align with React 18 standards and suppress deprecation
  warnings.
• Data Model Accuracy: Updated frontend mockCleaningData to strictly follow the actual backend API structure (nested objects).
• Global Setup: Configured setupTests.js to handle global requirements like i18n and JSDOM mocks (e.g., window.scrollTo).

📦 Other Changes

• Added missing favicon and updated project metadata.
• Cleaned up unused hashers and redundant console logs.
• Synchronized poetry.lock and package-lock.json.