🚀 Backend Release: lab-backend-v1 (v1.0.0)

This is the first stable release of the Lab Tracker Backend.
It includes core features such as authentication, user management, product and request controllers, mail notifications, dashboard analytics, reissue & return workflows, Docker deployment support, and multiple bug fixes and optimizations for staging and production deployments.

✨ New Features

Authentication & User Features

User controllers and API endpoints (PR #10)
Auth implementation (PR #21)
Login to staging, refresh tokens, and "Remember Me" functionality (PRs #25, #152, #161)
Update user APIs and admin fetch user improvements (PRs #78, #81, #82, #163)

Products

Product controllers & adding products (PRs #11, #77)
Fixed inStock & damagedQuantity logic for replaced items (PR #156)
G-sheet updates with new product values (PR #170)

Requests / Reissues

Request controllers and workflows (PRs #14, #24, #45)
Close Request controller (PR #92)
Reissued request controllers and optimizations (PR #96)
Correct return logic for damaged, replaced, and normal returns (PR #185)

Mail / Notifications

Mail templates and staff notify integration (PRs #12, #28, #102, #124)
Mail controller improvements and bug fixes (PR #110)
Notification updates (PR #179)

Dashboard / Admin

Dashboard controllers & analytics API (PRs #127, #138)
Admin dashboard optimization and bug fixes (PR #144)
Improved user dashboard data (PR #169)

DevOps / Deployment

Dockerfile & docker-compose added for backend deployment (PRs #153, #196, #199)
Continuous staging and production deployment updates (PRs #27, #30, #36, #50, #52, #53, #54, #55, #72, #80, #84, #90, #103, #107, #113, #115, #121, #125, #129, #140, #142, #145, #147, #159, #165, #172, #174)

Misc / Enhancements

Bulk-add and schema modifications (PRs #29, #40)
Sheets management & range updates (PRs #95, #99, #154)
API fixes and enhancements across user, request, and product modules (PRs #78, #157, #164, #185)
Removed use of Notification where unnecessary (PR #187)

🐛 Bug Fixes

Key errors, staging merge conflicts, and mail issues fixed (PRs #53, #54, #106, #134)
Admin profile fetch & reissue bug fixes (PRs #167, #146)
Trigger status, return logic, and collected item bug fixes (PRs #114, #185, #155)

👥 Core Development Team

Abinesh – Lead Developer / Full-stack / Maintainer (@knightempire)
Raam Prathap R V – Backend Developer (@Raamprathap)
Akshay K S – Frontend Developer (@akshayks13)
Santhosh A S – Frontend Developer (@Santhosh292K)
Sharan K – QA / Testing / Maintainer (@Sharan450522)

🙏 Special Thanks
A special thanks to Shibi S. Kumar (@shibi1306) for his continuous support and guidance throughout the backend development of this project.

🔗 Full Changelog: https://github.com/knightempire/lab-backend/commits/v1-release