To improve front end development speed and consistency across front and back end, we should autogenerate a client from the back end's OpenAPI spec. This requires strict adherence to back end best practices but important to keep otherwise-diverging development in lock-step.

(All that to say, I read this fastapi doc and got excited)

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/generate-clients/

Some things, once overlooked or shortcut, will never return to optimal state. To keep the application running smoothly, best practices and minimal expectation need to be documents with examples. This also will make it clear for newcomers how to contribute and allow us to be opinionated about trivial matters.

Future users will likely have lots of documents to upload (resumes, cover letters, etc), so we should store the actual files.

Ruff is fast and cool and I want to use it. Let's do it.

Links to or first-party content on finding a job, writing a resume, etc

Add convenience scripts to the codebase that automatically lint/format/style the code. Also add checks in CI to ensure that the code is styles. (see: flake8, black)

Some things, once overlooked or shortcut, will never return to optimal state. To keep the application running smoothly, best practices and minimal expectation need to be documents with examples. This also will make it clear for newcomers how to contribute and allow us to be opinionated about trivial matters.

Eliminate miserable CSRF problems, tracking which port is which, and probably other minor inconveniences, instead letting all your code live in one place.

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/static-files/

Automatic scanning and analysis of resumes and cover letters for every upload compared to the linked job description.

Automatically update the status of a job search or application by forwarding updates from the third party to the user's OpenToWork address

The MVP application uses metadata.create_all(), which blindly builds database tables at runtime as if it's the beginning of history. This is fine for local development, but once infrastructure exists, the database will need to be migrated with schema change.

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/#migrations