Endpoint not found /api/user

[Diego-Viero]

I spent some time trying to get the application running, the information in the README is useful but definitely not exhaustive, here's some steps that I had to debug manually in order to get the application running:

• Install mongodb
• Create a .env file in backend/quickTA/quickTA/ with the following content:

MONGODB="localhost:27017"
OPENAI_KEY=""

• Run python3 manage.py migrate in backend/quickTA directory
• Set node version 18 for the frontend, otherwise running npm run start would return the following error:

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:79:19)
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:139:10)
    at module.exports (/home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:135:53)
    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (/home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:417:16)
    at handleParseError (/home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:471:10)
    at /home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:503:5
    at /home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:358:12
    at /home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:373:3
    at iterateNormalLoaders (/home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:214:10)
    at Array.<anonymous> (/home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:205:4)
    at Storage.finished (/home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/enhanced-resolve/lib/CachedInputFileSystem.js:55:16)
    at /home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/enhanced-resolve/lib/CachedInputFileSystem.js:91:9
    at /home/yedgo/Documents/coding/QuickTA/docs/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:123:16
    at FSReqCallback.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (node:internal/fs/read/context:68:3) {
  opensslErrorStack: [
    'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error',
    'error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported'
  ],
  library: 'digital envelope routines',
  reason: 'unsupported',
  code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED'
}

Node.js v22.12.0

Once all these steps were done I managed to have the application run without any crashes.

Although now when I access the frontend page I see a screen saying "Welcome to QuickTA" with a bar below which suggests it's loading something, and if I check the backend console I see the following error:

Not Found: /api/user
[19/Dec/2024 16:11:27] "GET /api/user?utorid=sheik324 HTTP/1.1" 404 23

Could you help me understand if I missed some configuration step or if I'm doing something wrong?
Feel free to ask for more information.