- Add backend validation to detect and warn about anon vs service keys
- Prevent startup with incorrect Supabase key configuration
- Consolidate frontend state management following KISS principles
- Remove duplicate state tracking and sessionStorage polling
- Add clear error display when backend fails to start
- Improve .env.example documentation with detailed key selection guide
- Add comprehensive test coverage for validation logic
- Remove unused test results checking to eliminate 404 errors
The implementation now warns users about key misconfiguration while
maintaining backward compatibility. Frontend state is simplified with
MainLayout as the single source of truth for backend status.
- Implement fail-fast error handling for configuration errors
- Distinguish between critical config errors (fail) and network issues (use defaults)
- Add detailed error logging with stack traces for debugging
- Document new crawler settings in .env.example
- Add inline comments explaining safe defaults
Critical configuration errors (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError) now fail fast
as per alpha principles, while transient errors still fall back to safe defaults
with prominent error logging.