This release focuses on significant documentation enhancements and continues the theme of styling optimizations with the update to Tailwind CSS v4.
✨ New Features & Enhancements
- Tailwind CSS v4 Upgrade: Updated the frontend to utilize Tailwind CSS v4, bringing the latest styling capabilities and optimizations to the frontend.
- Styling Optimizations: Implemented various styling improvements and optimizations across the frontend for a cleaner and more efficient user interface.
📚 Documentation
This release introduces a comprehensive documentation suite built with MkDocs and the Material for MkDocs theme, fully integrated into the Docker Compose environment and deployable to GitHub Pages.
- Complete Project Documentation:
- index.md: Project overview, key features, and quick navigation.
- initial_setup.md: Detailed instructions for prerequisites, environment configuration, and multiple setup methods (Docker, automated scripts, manual).
- development.md: Comprehensive guide covering project structure, backend (FastAPI) and frontend (React) development practices, linting, formatting, testing placeholders, Docker usage, pre-commit hooks, and debugging tips.
- deployment.md: Instructions for production deployment using Docker Compose, environment variable configuration, production-specific compose adjustments, reverse proxy considerations, and deploying the documentation site itself.
- make_it_yours.md: A guide for users to adapt the starter template for their own projects, including renaming, backend/frontend customization, and Docker configuration.
- roadmap.md: A template for outlining project goals, now including initial items like Backend/Frontend Testing, Admin Panel, and Maintenance Processes.
 
- MkDocs Configuration:
- Set up mkdocs.ymlfor site navigation, theme, and plugins.
- Configured docs/requirements.txtfor documentation dependencies.
- Adjusted MkDocs configuration to support gh-deployby movingmkdocs.ymlto the project root.
 
- Set up 
- Docker Integration:
- Added a Dockerfilein thedocs/directory for the MkDocs service.
- Integrated the docsservice into the maindocker-compose.yml, exposing it on port8001.
- Updated Docker configurations to reflect mkdocs.ymlin the project root.
 
- Added a 
- Deployment Automation:
- Created a GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/docs-deploy.yml) to automatically build and deploy the documentation to GitHub Pages on pushes to themainbranch (fordocs/ormkdocs.ymlchanges) or via manual trigger.
- Configured site_urlinmkdocs.ymlfor correct GitHub Pages deployment.
 
- Created a GitHub Actions workflow (
- Build Hygiene:
- Added a .dockerignorefile to the project root to exclude virtual environments,node_modules, and other unnecessary files from Docker build contexts, cleaning up documentation builds.
- Added the MkDocs site/build output directory to.gitignore.
 
- Added a 
- Pre-commit Hooks:
- Updated .pre-commit-config.yamlto exclude thedocs/directory and Markdown files fromprettier,trailing-whitespace, andend-of-file-fixerhooks.
 
- Updated