Merge pull request #45 from kjannette/update-README

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backend/README.md

@@ -31,3 +31,15 @@ Backend startup quickstart:
         make poller — Builds and runs the poller.
         make poller-dev — Runs the poller with auto-reload.
 
+## Production: `make build` + restart service
+
+On the server, from this directory:
+
+- **`make build`** — writes fresh **`bin/api`** and **`bin/poller`** (see the Makefile).
+- **`make build-api`** — API only; **`make build-poller`** — poller only.
+
+Building alone does **not** reload a process that is already listening (e.g. on port 8080). After deploy:
+
+1. Ensure **`systemctl`** (or your supervisor) **`ExecStart`** runs the binary you just built (e.g. **`.../backend/bin/api`**) or copy `bin/api` to that path.
+2. **`sudo systemctl restart <your-api-service>`** (and the poller service if you rebuilt it).
+3. Optional check: **`readlink -f /proc/<pid>/exe`** should show your **`bin/api`** path without **`(deleted)`** — if you see `(deleted)`, an old process is still running the previous binary from memory.

frontend/src/api/config.js

@@ -1 +1,20 @@
-export const API_BASE = import.meta.env.VITE_API_BASE || "/v1";
+const DEFAULT_API_BASE = "/v1";
+
+/**
+ * API origin for fetch(): root-relative prefix (e.g. /v1) or absolute URL (https://host/v1).
+ * Root-relative values are forced to start with "/" so requests work from any SPA route
+ * (e.g. /support); otherwise "v1/support" would resolve under the current path and 404.
+ */
+function normalizeApiBase(raw) {
+  const s = String(raw ?? "").trim();
+  const base = s || DEFAULT_API_BASE;
+
+  if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(base)) {
+    return base.replace(/\/+$/, "") || DEFAULT_API_BASE;
+  }
+
+  const path = base.startsWith("/") ? base : `/${base}`;
+  return path.replace(/\/+$/, "") || DEFAULT_API_BASE;
+}
+
+export const API_BASE = normalizeApiBase(import.meta.env.VITE_API_BASE);

frontend/src/api/support.js

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export async function submitSupportRequest({ email, description }) {
       if (data.message) message = data.message;
       else if (data.error && res.status) message = `${data.error} (${res.status})`;
     } catch {
-      message = `Request failed (${res.status}). Is the API running on port 3001?`;
+      message = `Request failed (HTTP ${res.status}). The server did not return JSON — check that POST ${API_BASE}/support is proxied to your Go API (e.g. nginx location /v1/).`;
     }
     throw new Error(message);
   }

frontend/src/components/Navbar.jsx

@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ const navLinks = [
 
 export default function Navbar() {
   const { currentUser, logout } = useAuth();
+  const authData = useAuth();
   const location = useLocation();
   const [isNavPanelOpen, setIsNavPanelOpen] = useState(false);
 
   if (!currentUser) return null;
+  console.log(authData)
 
   return (
     <>